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- I’ve been working on the project since after the test, yet feel no closer to completing it. I, as I’m guessing many of us are, am approaching the maximum amount of time I can give this project, as I have other classes to prepare for on Monday. While I believe a “hard” project isn’t grounds for making it optional, I hope you consider the position some of us are in.
- To be blunt, I believe this project is outside the scope of this class. From the syllabus, it says “This is a course in the foundational aspects of security; not a course giving you practice in hacking”. I could go more into this topic, but it seems to pivot away from the "foundational" topics we were discussing in class, and gets a little more into the meat of what it means to practice security than I think what Dr. Young intended. Its a little bit of a shock when a class starts out teaching you what CIA is in security, to then being linked graduate textbooks over RSA and developing an alphanumeric shellcode encoder. I believe this goes against the spirit of this class, which focuses more on protocols and just wants you to "become conversant with current security-related issues in the field".
- All this might be manageable if it wasn't such a bad time. The project was released over Thanksgiving break, little of us will work during this time spent with our families. The week we get back, we also have a test to study for, and given its class weight, was a primary focus. This effectively gives us 4 days to do this project, with almost no official office hours, or possible deadline extension. This isn't even mentioning the common theme that other classes also have final projects/tests due the last week of class.
- Personally, I do find the project very interesting. I am interested in the security field, and found reading about this topic widen my knowledge. I also learned that one of my favorite tools, msfvenom, has an alphanumeric shellcode encoder, and used this to test my code. So I know I can use this knowledge on real exploits. Again, I just feel this project was ill-timed, and many of us are ill-prepared for a project outside the scope of this class. I hope I am not just speaking for my small friend group, and instead the entire class, when I ask for some kind of compromise.
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