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This course will give students a technical and social understanding of how and why security and privacy matter, help them think adversarially and impart how (and how not) to design systems and products. Less attention will be paid to specific skills such as hacking, writing secure code and security administration. Topics will include user authentication, cryptography, malware, behavioral economics in security, human factors in security, privacy and anonymity, side channels, decoys and deception and adversarial modeling. We will explore these concepts by studying real-world systems and attacks, including Bitcoin, Stuxnet, retailer breaches, implantable medical devices, and health apps — and we will consider future issues that may arise in personal genomics, virtual worlds, and autonomous vehicles.