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Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru: Cheating is Fundamental

Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru: Cheating is Fundamental. James Caroland, U.S. Cyber Command Greg Conti, West Point. http://www.scottmckay.ca/the-blog/tag/briefs. Disclaimer.

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  1. Lessons of the Kobayashi Maru: Cheating is Fundamental James Caroland, U.S. Cyber Command Greg Conti, West Point http://www.scottmckay.ca/the-blog/tag/briefs

  2. Disclaimer The views in this article are the authors’ and don’t reflect the official policy or position of the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, United States Cyber Command, the Department of Defense, or the United States Government. Or in Esperanto... La views en this paroli are la auxtoro kaj dont reflekti la oficiala policy aux pozicio de la United Stato Military Akademio la Department de la Armeo la Department de la Navy United Stato Cyber Koamandi la Department de Defense aux la United Stato Registaro

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  5. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Test_%28student_assessment%29.jpeghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Test_%28student_assessment%29.jpeg

  6. http://stuffmysisterswilllike.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/cadet-james-t-kirk-during-the-kobayashi-maru-scenario.jpghttp://stuffmysisterswilllike.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/cadet-james-t-kirk-during-the-kobayashi-maru-scenario.jpg

  7. http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z35/demonoidtmn/Nar24.png

  8. Joint Advanced Cyber Warfare Course (JACWC)

  9. Setup of "Test" 3.141592653589 79323846264338 32795028841971 69399375105820 97494459230781 64062862089986 28034825342117 06798214808651 32823066470938 44609550582231 72535940812848 11174502841027 01938521055596 44622948954930 • Provide virtually no notice • Choose "unfair" problem • Tell students don't want them to study... we want them to cheat • Collaborative cheating was encouraged, but this exercise wasn't a blanket license to cheat throughout the course

  10. Examples

  11. The False Book Cover

  12. The Everyday Object

  13. The Ceiling Tile http://www.grainger.com

  14. Hiding in Plain Sight http://www.imaginghostingservice.com/d2ap2c11da4087.jpg

  15. Prepositioned Answers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hp_laserjet_4200dtns.jpg

  16. Alternate Encoding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mengu_Ziyun_xia_24b.jpg

  17. Morse Code

  18. Story Encoded

  19. The Classic http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Post-it-note-transparent.png

  20. Precompiled Answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EssayImageAction.png

  21. rand() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EssayImageAction.png 3.1415926535 + 90 random digits

  22. Power Point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mengu_Ziyun_xia_24b.jpg 3.14159265358 7932384626433 3279502884197 6939937510582 9749445923078 3.14159265358 7932384626433 3279502884197 6939937510582 9749445923078 3.14159265358 7932384626433 3279502884197 6939937510582 9749445923078   Slide 1                          Slide 2                          Slide 3

  23. Hash marks

  24. Obscured by wholesome goodness

  25. Ubiquitous Coffee

  26. Ubiquitous Coffee demo

  27. Notebook Camouflage

  28. Notebook Camouflage demo

  29. Roach clip engraving

  30. Fake Barcodes

  31. Customized jewelry

  32. Artist daughter + code

  33. Security Lessons Learned •  Most people are pretty darn good at cheating • Especially the quiet ones •  Cheaters... • Exploit explicit and implicit trust • Exploit laziness • Exploit predictability • Exploit limitations of human and machine senses • Use everyday objects • Look where no one else is looking • Use uncommon skill sets • Have backup plans

  34. Acknowledgements We'd like to thank...  Mudge, TJ White, Eric McKissick, Mark Moss, and  all the JACWC students. See also... Gregory Conti and James Caroland.  "Embracing the Kobayashi Maru - Why You Should Teach Your Students to Cheat."  IEEE Security and Privacy, July/August 2011.

  35. Questions? James Caroland U.S. Cyber Command jlcarol@cybercom.mil Greg Conti West Point gjconti@rumint.org Teach yourself, your friends and your co-workers to cheat.   Our adversaries already do.

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