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Final deliverable

We have come a long way in covering the history of hacking. You are now ready in your respective group to bring about your final deliverable!

Here we will provide you details about the grading rubric, but let's first return to the parameters for the assignment. You will remember that we have provided you with the following instructions:

  1. Pick a contemporary event of hacking in the news;
  2. Describe the event in detail;
  3. Examine the historical connection between the event your group picked and the history of hacking;
  4. Identify the digital artifact and the hacking techniques that have been used and describe them in detail.

You have all made excellent progress through the semester in calibrating your project based on the feedback from your instructors. For your final project deliverable, here is what is needed:

  1. You will record the presentation of your final project and submit it to Ellen;
  2. You may use any multimedia format you want as long as your presentation includes the 4 requirements above;
  3. Be creative and exercise your technical and academic freedom!

You must demonstrate a good understanding of the history of hacking in the presentation of your case. For example, if you decided to pick an event of “information leaking” and “exfiltration,” you may discuss the “hacker ethic” and the “cypherpunk manifesto” as foundational aspects of the practice of information sharing and protection. When discussing Free and Open Source software hacking, you may want to discuss their roots in the early UNIX and MIT hacker communities with their orientation toward technical excellence and community-building. You get the idea: every contemporary example is necessarily informed by the past: you need to demonstrate that you understand the past to analyze the present. Simple enough, right?

  • Here is the grading rubric we will apply for the evaluation of your final projects
     
  • Final project deliverable is due 05/06 at 5pm

As always, the project member who has been assigned as a Scribe should contact Ellen to let her know which Google Drive folder to look at to collect your group’s final deliverable. Happy Hacking!