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It's a fun class; worth keeping in mind that several topics with 1-2 units here are whole specializations in the field, including:<p>* memory safety and exploitation (the "buffer overflow" section is about 20 years out of date, though super appropriate for a first course)<p>* the WebPKI/certificates thing<p>* messaging security and messaging cryptosystems,<p>* microarchitectural security and hardware side channels.<p>Multiple <i>full courses</i> on each of these subjects would bring you up to "practitioner" levels of expertise.
Seeing this makes me miss the salad days of MOOCs. I learned programming in the 2010s through MIT’s EDX Introduction to Programming course, and then a course on Coursera by Martin Odersky on Functional Programming through EPFL, and I feel like that ladder has been kicked away due to MOOC monetization policies. I wonder if we could return to these days.