Last year, HTWG Konstanz elected a new university president. Earlier this year, the management team of HTWG presented results of a strategy workshop: the values of HTWG. Based on the identified values we are now supposed to develop a strategy for the computer science department that will then be incorporated into an overall strategy for […]
We offered „Studieninformationstage“ this week. Monday through Wednesday both in the morning and in the afternoon, we invite pupils to us at HTWG Konstanz to present them our study programmes in computer science and to give them the opportunity to ask questions. Pupils do not take part in teaching at their schools on these days. […]
The paper „Privacy Points as a Method to Support Privacy Impact Assessments“ has been accepted for presentation at the TELERISE workshop, co-located with ICSE 2015. It is the result of a team project of students in the MSI study programme at HTWG Konstanz. Julia Himmel, Nikolas Siebler, Felix Laegeler, and Marco Grupe worked on the […]
One of my proposals was selected to receive support from HTWG Konstanz in the „Research-Based Learning“ project. As an enhancement to my lecture Software Security we will prepare for and take part in two Capture the flag (CTF) competitions. Preparation will be supported by a student assistant. The first competition will be offense/defense style, the […]
This semester, I taught Introduction to Programming for students in the WIN (information systems) study programme. I had 62 students signed up for the exam today, and only 29 of them passed. Should I be worried? Based on feedback from students who had taken the class in previous years, I had introduced some changes to […]
I was not in a good mood the other day. IT was Saturday, the town was full of people, the shops did not have in stock the items I wanted, and the machine that takes back your empty bootles refused to accept some of those bottles my children had inserted. After waiting in line for […]
Last year, seven weeks ago, I ordered light bulbs online that I had been unable to find in local stores. They were displayed as being in stock in a quantity larger than what I ordered, so I trusted that information. Having worked for a (formally independent, practically closely related) company, I had no indication to […]
It was a convenient coincidence that we had reached network security, anonymity, and data protection in the IT security class I teach at HTWG Konstanz. The same week the movie „Citizenfour“ was shown in a local cinema. The movie is a documentary about the revelations of the former NSA employee Edward Snowden on extent and […]
Tracking does not actually help you to get your goods fast, but it gives you insights into supply chains. When I (temporarily) lost my suitcase on a SWISS flight, I immediately ordered some of the things I needed to have available quickly. I placed the order online the same afternoon (16:33). Visiting a brick and […]
Two years ago, I published a paper on Privacy Points as a novel approach to data protection. The idea stems from ecological impact assessments and emission trading. In short, you use metrics to assign point values to changes in IT systems affecting privacy of users. The level of data protection could then be given as […]