On 08/26/2009 09:27 AM, Adam Miller wrote: > I was thinking of spawning something here in an attempt to offer more > a "feeling of ownership" for the students, but I am open to joining an > existing project. My main concern is that I don't really know of an > open source tool geared towards digital forensics that would be good > for students to work on and the main reason I want to stick in the DF > world is because our computer science department is roughly 50/50 > split of "straight CS" and DF majors so I could interest more of the > student body. > > -Adam > I see no problem with starting something for the class to own. While there are pitfalls, we were able to do just that at RIT with the 4th grade Math project.
We did have a brain storm session at Red Hat a little over a week ago regarding the class. The most interesting bit was what the students had to say about starting not only a FOSS development class from scratch, but getting in on the ground floor with FOSS Development. See http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/RIT and Wesley's post at http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2009-August/000435.html Now as far as doing something with Forensics, two distros that come to mind are BackTrack [1] and Helix [2]. Perhaps there's something within either of the two distros that would pique interest with the DF and CS students and give some sort of common ground. Both are Linux based. Helix is also commercial product but I can get you in touch with the developer if you'd like to go that route. I'm afraid I don't know anyone from BackTrack, yet. ~Karlie [1] http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html [2] http://www.e-fense.com/helix3-download.php _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
