Assignment: COURSE PROJECT OVERVIEW

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Introduction

Your Course Project topic should be something that interests you in the domain of computer crimes or computer terrorism. There are plenty of topics within these two domains to grab your interest.

Course Project Topic Selection:

Please post your chosen topic for my approval in the (not graded but required) Topic Selection in Week 2. You will be given feedback to make sure that you're on the right track for this assignment.

Course Project Outline:

Please post your outline for your Course Project, titled Project Outline, in Week 4. Please note that this is also the week of your Midterm Exam, so you will need to have gotten an early start on your project to allow time to review for your exam. (30 points)

Topic Selection

Week 2 Course Project Assignment: Topic Selection (ungraded but required)

Read the possible topic choices. Choose your term-paper topic and upload it. Your topic choice will be reviewed, and you will then receive feedback and/or approval of your topic choice. You do not have to select one of the listed topics. If there is a related topic that you would like to write about that is not listed, let the instructor know. The appropriateness of the topic will be evaluated against which CO that your paper is intended to address.

Possible Computer Crime and Computer Terrorism Course Project Topics

For your convenience, below is a list of possible topics for you to consider. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask. If there is not a topic listed here that you would like to research and write about, contact your instructor so that the appropriateness (CO related, broad enough, etc.) of your topic can be assessed.

1. Identity theft. How do we catch the perpetrators?

2. Compare and contrast the four different categorizations of computer crimes.

3. Are the current mandatory sentences for possession of illegal substances reasonable?

4. Compare and contrast the differences between a criminal prosecution and a civil lawsuit.

5. Why is having the technical knowledge and the legal knowledge so important in the computer forensics field?

6. What's the difference between the hacker's viewpoint on access to information on the Web and yours?

7. Compare and contrast the difference between cyber terrorism and information warfare.

8. How do we deter child pornography?