Cybersecurity & Tech

Hacking and Cybersecurity: Class 4, Computers & Operating Systems

Scott Shapiro, Sean O'Brien, Benjamin Wittes
Wednesday, July 26, 2023, 12:00 PM
The fourth class of Lawfare's cybersecurity and hacking course is now available to the public.

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This is the fourth class of Lawfare's live course on hacking and cyber security. Scott Shapiro of the Yale Law School and Sean O'Brien of the Yale Privacy Lab discuss the difference between various operating systems, how to crack passwords using rainbow tables, demonstrate a scavenging hunt, and more.

You can access all course materials at https://github.com/lawfareblog/hacking-cybersecurity.


Scott J. Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, where he is the Director of the Centre for Law and Philosophy. He is also the Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London. He earned his BA and PhD degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and a JD from Yale Law School. He is the author of The Internationalists (with Oona Hathaway), Legality and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Law.
Sean O’Brien is a subject-matter expert in cybersecurity, privacy, Web3, and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Sean teaches classes on Web3 and Blockchain at Yale as well as Hacking and Cybersecurity at Lawfare. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where he founded and leads the Privacy Lab initiative.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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