CNT4704: Computer Communication Networks

Fall 2010

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Lab assignment 2: Manually send a spam email (Assigned on Sept. 9th, Due Sept. 16th midnight, late submission: Sept. 20th midnight)

    In this simple assignment, you will need to use telnet to manually send a spam (faked) email to Dr. Cliff Zou at czou@eecs.ucf.edu. From this experiment, you will understand why there are so many untrusted email around and how easy for attackers to send out spam or phishing email.

Please follow the in-class illustration to send this faked email. In order to make these assignment email not be treated as the other spam email, you must follow the following specifications:

1.  The sender email must be "fake@", you can use any domain name in the sender email address (do not use cs.ucf.edu, longwood.cs.ucf.edu, or eecs.ucf.edu).

2.  The email must have a subject as "CNT4704: firstname lastname". Put your name in the subject line so that you can be credited.

3.  Put in some words in the content. Must be at least two lines.

You can type in two "rcpt to:" to include your own email address for verification. In this way, if you didn't receive your spam email, your email may have failed.

You need to send this spam email to me by Sept. 16th midnight. Then you need to submit a simple report containing a brief description and the screen copy of what you typed (and what the server responded) via Webcourse by Sept. 16th midnight.