Topics

Last week’s Weekly Memo (When I made the changes to the schedule, I neglected to include the last Weekly Memo assignment on the schedule. If you wrote a memo for Week 13, you may turn it in for extra credit/replace a missed Weekly Memo).

Research Presentation (watch Life after Death by PowerPoint).

Discuss Little Brother.

Hand out take-home final exam questions.

Due next week on last day of class:

• Your Final Exam Responses (hand-written and stapled)
• Research Paper (printed and stapled following MLA style–here’s an example)
• In-class Research Presentation (anchor your 5-10 speech with a PowerPoint presentation)
• Any late Weekly Memos (only printed copies are graded–go through your notebook to see what I have or have not graded with a check/comments)

Resources

M1k3y’s Instructables

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_actions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/topten.html

Topics

Review changes to the schedule (see announcement below or the syllabus).

Watch second part of Frontline documentary providing background on Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother.

Next week: Discuss Doctorow’s Little Brother. Handout take-home final exam.

Resources

Cory Doctorow’s Pluralism \ Little Brother and Homeland Introduced by Edward Snowden

Citizenfour Documentary

Topics

Lecture: Continue Little Brother.

Weekly Memorandum (Write about the second part of Little Brother–chapters 8-15 and our lecture today. Think about how themes in the novel connect to our previous readings and other things that you know about–fiction and real life)

Read for next class:

Doctorow, Cory. Little Brother. E-book, https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/, 2008, chapters 16-21.

Resources

Search the City Tech Library’s catalog for “Fourth Amendment”

https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does-0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument