COS 430 SPRING 2009 HW #5  DUE TUESDAY 2/17/09

In general, for the "Activities", be sure to provide enough information 
about what you saw to convince us that you actually did it. For example, 
if an activity says that you look at a title page, you should write down 
the title that you saw there. If the activity says that there is something 
humorous on a page, you should tell us what was humorous about it. 
Alternatively, you can provide images from your sessions if that is easier 
for you. Thus, you can include a screen shot or printout from a webpage, 
etc. Remember, the key idea is that you convince us that you did the 
activity.

The system homework should be on CDs and the rest of the homework should 
be on paper as usual.

STRUCTURED HOMEWORK

1. Do multiple-choice questions 1-20 on pp. 105-107 of EH.

2. Do Activities 5-1 through 5-4 in Chapter 5 of EH.

FREE-FORM HOMEWORK

1. Read Chapter 10 & 11 of PS and write at least 500 words describing what 
you think are the 3 most significant points made in each chapter.

SYSTEM HOMEWORK

Write and submit your weekly report following the guidelines in Lecture 5. 
You should omit any parts of the report dealing with attacks since you are 
still in the process of setting up the server. You should focus on 
explaining what you have accomplished so far, what distribution and 
VERSION of the OS you are running, the current state of the services that 
you are running, and any problems of special interest that you ran into so 
far.You should discuss what you saw from your server being connected to 
the Internet. Document attacks that were made against your server and 
discuss whether the attacks were successful or not. When we get to the 
Cyberwars you will lose points if your services stay down -- not running 
services is not an acceptable defensive strategy in this class. Be sure to 
create the HTML document that I discussed in class.

BE SURE TO SUBMIT YOUR SYSTEM HOMEWORK ON 2 CDs.

1. The CDs need to be in a sleeve or a jewel case -- stapled together 
containers made of paper will be returned unexamined and ungraded. You 
would not submit something like this in a professional situation, so you 
should not submit it here.

Late penalties will apply to resubmissions.

2. The CDs should be labeled with the following:

        a. Your name.
        b. The number of the homework to which they belong
        c. The due date which applies to them
        d. One copy should be labeled GM and the other LW

You will lose points for incomplete or unreadable labels.