Security on Internet

Introduction to Information Technology
Assignment (40%)
Overview
This assignment is worth 40% of your overall mark.
Your task is write a research report on a topic related to IT that you nd stimulating. You are free to
choose your topic, but it must be IT-related (not that this is much of a restriction!). Some suggestions
are below; you can also seek help from the lecturer or your tutor.
You will work on your assignment in groups in your tutorials, but this is an individual assignment.
Discussion with your group during tutorials is a way of helping you get feedback, and hearing the ideas
of other group members will help you with your own.
There are three milestones to meet, with increasing requirements each time. You may incorporate
feedback on your submission for Milestone 1 into Milestones 2 and 3, and feedback for Milestone 2 into
Milestone 3.
The due dates for each milestone are below. All should be submitted via Blackboard.
1. Milestone 1: 11.59pm Sunday 7th April (end of Week 4)
2. Milestone 2: 11.59pm Sunday 5th May (end of Week 8)
3. Milestone 3: 11.59pm Sunday 2nd June (end of Week 12)
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There must be some reason that you are enrolled in this course, and why you are studying IT! Presumably
this is because there is something that interests you about it. What is that? Why do you nd it interesting?
Following your interests is by far the best way to choose a topic for your assignment.
If you nd this di cult, or aren't really sure what your particular interest may be, some suggestions of
mine are below. Note that there are plenty of other topics as well; these are just some ideas to get you
started if you are stuck. You may also nd discussions with other students helpful, or spend some time on
\The University of YouTube". \TED talks" are particularly worthwhile, in my experience.
electronic voting robots ( sh, companions, Turtlebots, ...) information security
3D user interfaces digital music and sound digital video
electronic commerce natural language processing DNA and quantum computing
cryptography malware detection and removal Moore's Law
green computing nanotechnology driverless cars
automated manufacturing arti cial intelligence cloud computing
home monitoring systems \smart" electric meters transport management
smart phones . . .
Note that many of these topics are very broad, and that you will typically have to narrow yours down.
For example, cryptography is too broad as a topic; you should re ne this by choosing a particular encryption
technique or technology (such as AES, PGP, or Silent Circle). If in doubt, ask the lecturer or your tutor for
advice, and remember that it is generally better to be too speci c rather than too broad.
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Once you have chosen a topic, you need to read about it, think about it, and write about it in your
own words. You should have three or four sources for your topic (which could be web pages, articles,
books, or whatever you can nd). Please note that Wikipedia is a good way to nd out some overview
information, and to nd relevant other materials, but Wikipedia should not be used as one of your
quoted sources.
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Why is this technology or technique useful? What is the motivation for it? What human problems does (or
would) it solve?
The idea here is to get some idea of the importance of your chosen topic. However, it should be
backed up with some evidence. I don't want just to hear that \the Internet is used by lots of peo-
ple every day"; I also want to hear some evidence for this, such as \In the period 2000-2012, Internet
use in the Oceania region increased by 218%, and makes up a total of 1% of global Internet usage" (see
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) or that \Australian electronic commerce has been esti-
mated as around $20 billion in value in 2009". Naturally statistics or other evidence alone is not an argument,
but an argument without evidence is not convincing either.
The kind of evidence will vary, depending on the topic, of course, but some things to consider are:
Market size (e.g. number of people, amount of money spent globally/regionally/locally or in a particular
time period, number of transactions, percentage of population)
Impact (e.g. climate change, environmental damage, energy use, avoiding catastrophes such as nuclear
explosions, minimising natural disasters such as tsunamis)
Quality (e.g. safer transport, less crime, greater e ciency, less pollution, cleaner rivers)
Cost
There is no minimum or maximum length for your report. However, three paragraphs is a reasonable
expectation of length for Milestone 1.
Milestone 2: What?
What is the state of the art? What is coming just over the horizon? Who is working on what in this area?
The main task here is to describe the technical features of your topic, and in particular what is at the
\leading edge". If your topic is a historical one (such as the Enigma machine), the "leading edge" would be
the most sophisticated Enigma machines that were made. For other topics, this is likely to be found in news
reports and the like, sometimes about technologies that are not yet generally available, but are the subject
of research.
As with Milestone 1, there is no minimum or maximum length for your report. However, four or ve
paragraphs is a reasonable expectation of length for Milestone 2.
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What social or other changes may result from this? What predictions can you make?
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.
{ Rupert Murdoch.
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The history of technology is a fascinating account of some inventions that have changed the way people
live, and many, many others that have more or less been ignored. Notably in
uential inventions include the
printing press, the telephone, and the Internet. What will be the impact of your chosen topic? How will the
future be a ected by it?
In some ways, this is a return to the topic of Milestone 1, only it is asking you to be as predictive as
possible. This is necessarily highly speculative, and it is very di cult to make any sensible prediction with
a great agree of certainty. However, being asked about the future of IT is something that you will have to
get used to, and so having some experience at dealing with this kind of question is important.
Your task for this milestone is to nd two predictions from the past about the future of information
technology, and to discuss how accurate (or inaccurate) they were. Some starting points can be found at
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jah/never.html; note that you are not allowed to use these as your
examples. You must nd di erent examples. You are also to make one prediction of your own about your
chosen topic, with as much evidence and argument for it as you can reasonably make.
It is expected that you will produce three paragraphs | one for each of your past predictions, and one
for your own prediction.
Submission Requirements
Your submission should be a single le. If you have more than one source le that you want to submit, put
the les together into one le as a .zip le (using tools such as 7-zip). Please do not generate any other type
of compressed le | it is either a .zip le or a single le (and nothing else).
Your submission should be either in PDF format or in HTML. The latter is recommended, so that you
can easily include imagess or links to websites (such as YouTube). This possible with PDF as well, but
can be a little less simple, depending on what software you use to generate the PDF. Files in any other
formats will not be read.
If you use HTML, please ensure that your entire assignment can be read by pointing a browser at a
le named assignment.html.
If you use PDF, please ensure that your le is named assignment.pdf.
Please note that copying and pasting from Wikipedia or any other source is strictly forbid-
den. I don't want to know how well you can copy and paste; I want to know how well you can read, process,
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Marks
This assignment will contribute 40% of your nal mark, with Milestone 1 contributing 5%, Milestone 2 10%
and Milestone 3 25%.
Each Milestone will be marked out of 100, as below.
Milestone 1:
Quality of information 40 marks
Presentation of information 30 marks
References 20 marks
Use of images and other non-text items 10 marks
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Milestone 2:
Milestone 1 revision 30 marks
Milestone 2 quality of information 30 marks
Milestone 2 presentation of information 20 marks
Milestone 2 References 10 marks
Milestone 2 Use of images 10 marks
Milestone 3:
Milestone 1 revision 20 marks
Milestone 2 revision 30 marks
Past Prediction 1 15 marks
Past Prediction 2 15 marks
Future Prediction 10 marks
References 10 marks



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