I actually did these a while ago. Courses taught me a lot and have recommended it to friends since. Very grateful for the course team for making everything public :)
I have the same question, I'd love to watch the presentations in my own time, but I don't want to sign up for something that will have strict deadlines, as my schedule doesn't allow that.
Does anyone know which kind of the two above this course is? I couldn't find that info.
Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Coursera started, or it is not like that if you look at older MIT videos.
Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everything online? Or did my perception change with age?
Personally, I learned programming when I was a kid by watching YouTube tutorials + reading random Internet sources. When helping build SHD, it was important to me that we "paid it forward" & made all our lab materials open for everyone to learn from.
Younger teachers get "out there" for the same class of reasons software developers today want to be more "out there" - website,twitter,etc - compared to the relatively quieter personal websites of the last generation.
Our labs include building your own real spectre attack against the kernel, bypassing ASLR and building ROP chains with various side channels, finding and exploiting backdoors in a RISC-V CPU by building a hardware fuzzer, and more.
(source: I designed the Spectre lab plus a few others)
If you give them a try, please do let us know what you think! We genuinely want these activities to be fun and approachable (we designed them like a big CTF) and welcome feedback from the community.
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