Assignments

Assignments are due at 5pm Eastern time, unless otherwise noted. We can’t provide real-time assistance on assignments, so please ask for help early and not at the last minute. We allow a six-hour grace period for submitting assignments: After 5pm, we are not available for help at all including with errors in the submission process itself, but you can still submit the assignment until 11pm without penalty, in case you are stuck in traffic, have internet problems, or just need more time. You can submit assignments multiple times; only the final submission will receive a grade.

Can I hand in an assignment at 11:01pm Eastern time because that is merely 1 minute late? No, in fact it’s six hours and 1 minute late. We cannot give you credit for missing the deadline by 6 hours.

Assignments are posted to our Moodle site.

• Part I

  • (1a.) Due Sept 13 (assigned Sept 7, 7 days)
    • Python basics
  • (1b.) Due Sept 17 (assigned Sept 11, 7 days)
    • Written questions only: motivating example, forensic science, 4th Amendment.
  • (2.) Due Sept 24 (assigned Sept 18 7 days)
    • Program on Hexdump, written questions on data representation.
  • (3.) Due Oct 01 (assigned Sept 26, 7 days)
    • Program MMLS and written questions on file systems
  • (4.) Due Oct 13 (assigned Oct 02, 12 days)
    • Program FLS for FAT, very few questions on daubert/possession
  • Oct 18: Midterm Exam
    • evening exam that covers all material covered in lecture or, assigned as reading between start of course and Oct 10, inclusive. (But not Oct 11 forward.)

• Part 2

  • (5.) Due Oct 26 (assigned Oct 19, 8 days)
    • mostly written questions on cryptographic hashes, and perceptual hashes
  • (6.) Due Nov 09 (assigned Oct 26, 14 days)
    • Program NTFS and written questions on NTFS
  • (7.) Due Nov 27 (assigned Nov 13, 14 days)
    • Written only; BitTorrent, Tor, and networking
  • (8.) Due Dec 06 (assigned Nov 28, 7 days)
    • Non-NIT investigations, safe-by-design, windows forensics, benford’s law
  • On Dec 11 (it seems): Final Exam
    • Covers everything from Oct 11 onward. Cumulative in the sense that understanding the first half of the course is often necessary for topics in the second half.