week01
Welcome to COMP6841
Come up and ask me questions for 5 mins
Good faith policy
We expect a high standard of professionalism from you at all times while you are taking any of our courses. We expect all students to act in good faith at all times
TLDR: Don’t be a jerk
sec.edu.au/good-faith-policy
Whoami
- Jesse Merhi (Like that herb + “he”)
- Product Security @ Atlassian
- I like hacking and machine learning, talk to me about them.
In saying that..
- If any of you want some advice regarding career things, then…
No fr though come and ask :)
I really dont wanna talk, but we need to do some Housekeeping
places for course discussion
Webcms! We have a forum too - (R.I.P. Open Learning) Nevermind long live the king!- Edstem… there is no link just go to moodle lol.
- Oh yeah we have moodle (cool)
- SecSoc Discord - Ad-hoc and general chatting
> whoareu
- Your name, degree, year?
- Why’d you do the course?
- Fun fact (if its not fun then I will be upset)
Questions
- Attendance
80% Attendence is Compulsory for Tutorials and Lectures.- We had attendance requirements for 8 weeks of one term.
- thank god we don’t anymore.
- Are these recorded? No :( - sadly this is pretty hard.
- Where are these resources? jmerhi.mov/6843/weekX
Course content
- 40% - Exam -> We Have to do this and its open book
- 30% - Portfolio (Formerly Logbooks) -> This is your opportunity to LEARN
- If you wanna change it up a bit… let me know ;)
- Start early. Be Detailed please, more detail = better
- 30% - Project - (Formerly Something Awesome)
- This got me my job :)
- Dont underestimate the things you do at uni.
Check the marking criteria please.
We can chat after the case study about projects!
Try not to Geept it up please
- I Love AI… like alot.
- I would never use it for a course like this -> Its just a waste.
- Honestly just send me your input to ChatGPT instead.
- Its super obvious.
- Technically if you do use AI its ok as long as you “Acknowledge AI”
Open learning?
Do y’all have access?
What happened in the lecture?
- Make sure to ask “What is a JWT?” in the next lecture.

Case Study Time
- The goal is for me to talk about 10% of the time. Prepare yourselves.
- This is about thinking.
- Please talk or this doesnt work <3 no one here bites… (No promises)
Things to think about
Thing 1
What happens after a natural disaster?Thing 2
- Lawlessness
- Sanitisation
- Sewerage
- Food
- WaterThing 3
Is the Tsunami actually going to get here? No.