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\section*{Homework 1}
+\HEADER
+
+
\begin{enumerate}
\item {\bf (Optional)} If you want to have a look at the code
presented in the lectures, install \texttt{Node.js} available (for free) from
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\item And another one: Imagine you have at home a broadband
contract with TalkTalk. You do not like their service
- and want to switch, say, to Virgin. The procedure
+ and want to switch to Virgin, say. The procedure
between the Internet providers is that you contact
- Virgine and set up a new contract and they will
+ Virgin and set up a new contract and they will
automatically inform TalkTalk to terminate the old
contract. TalkTalk will then send you a letter to
confirm that you want to terminate. If they do not hear
- from you otherwise, they will proceed with terminating
+ from you, they will proceed with terminating
the contract and will request any outstanding
cancellation fees. Virgin on the other hand sends you a
new router and paperwork about the new contract.
Obviously this way of doing things is meant to make
- switching for you as convenient as possible. Still can
- you imagine in which situations this way of switching
- providers can cause you a lot of headaches to you? For
+ switching as convenient as possible. Still can
+ you imagine situations in which this way of switching
+ providers can cause you a lot of headaches? For
this consider that TalkTalk needs approximately 14 days
to reconnect you and might ask for reconnection fees.
@@ -72,18 +75,19 @@
prevented. Hint: Consider the fact that every person
uses approximately 120l of water every day.
-\item And another one: Nowadays everybody is scared at a bomb
- going off at a big event, say a football game. To
- mitigate such a threat, you order expensive metal
- detectors and hire a security team that will staff these
- detectors at each game. Think whether people are really
- safer at a football game with metal detectors or not.
- Hint: People certainly might *\emph{feel}* safer by
- going through metal detectors, but the question is
- whether they *\emph{are}* safer. Hint: Consider how
- people arrive at such an event: within a relative short
- amount of time, thousands, if not more, spectators will
- arrive at your football game.
+%\item And another one: Nowadays everybody and their
+% grandmother seems to be scared about a bomb going off at
+% a big event, say a football game. To mitigate such a
+% threat, you order expensive metal detectors and hire a
+% security team that will staff these detectors at each
+% game. Think whether people are really safer at a
+% football game with metal detectors or not. Hint: People
+% certainly might *\emph{feel}* safer by going through
+% metal detectors, but the question is whether they
+% *\emph{are}* safer. Hint: Consider how people arrive at
+% such an event: within a relative short amount of time,
+% thousands, if not more, spectators will arrive at your
+% football game.
%% CYA security - cover-your-ass
% It's an attitude I've seen before: "Something must
@@ -91,9 +95,9 @@
% Never mind if the something makes any sense or not.
\item And another one: Imagine you are researching security
- products (e.g.~CCTV, alarms etc) on a
- helpful website. They ask you for you address details?
- Think about whether this can be bad for you.
+ products (e.g.~CCTV, alarms etc) on a helpful website.
+ They ask you for you address details? Think about
+ whether this can be bad for you.
%\item Imagine there was recently a break in where computer criminals
@@ -107,7 +111,7 @@
\item Even good passwords consisting of 8 characters, can be
broken in around 50 days (obviously this time varies a lot and
- also gets shorterand shorter). Do you think it is good
+ also gets shorter and shorter). Do you think it is good
policy to require users to change their password every 3
months (as King's did until recently)? Under which
circumstance should users be required to change their
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+\newcommand{\HEADER}{{\bf Please submit your solutions via the email address
+7ccsmsen\@gmail.com. Please submit only ASCII text or PDFs. Every solution
+should be preceeded by question. Solutions will only be accepted until
+30th December!}\bigskip}
+