My son is looking for project ideas for his A Level computing coursework, which accounts for 30% of his A Level.
He wants to code in Python and preferably infosec related.
Any ideas? I’ve gone a bit blank.
Thanks
Stuart
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Welcome Stuart, I’m glad you responded to my invite and hope we can help. We have some Python folk here, and everyone is interested in computer security so that’s why I thought it worth posting. I’ll have a think myself too and let’s see what we can come up with.
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I’m not an expert in either topic but wonder one big gap, is a user friendly report of which programs/processes are sending data out to the network.
Making visible that which is not obvious…
If I don’t have outgoing firewall locked down, what control do I have over what connections are made. If not control, then information about that might be useful.
I expect there must be tools out there for this but all I’ve seen are the likes of netstat but can we do better than watch netstat -tn ?
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Hi. I’m glad you invited me 
There is some additional information on this link that may help us:
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Maybe check out all the websites that already exist for our SAFE Network software first, to get ideas?
We already have Tetris and a few of the ideas that are on that list already.
Here’s the link for the directory to all the websites that exist on the current Alpha Network, and here’s a link to the directory for the TEST 11 Network.
Lots of them are open source, so you can see the code and learn from them and/or copy
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Hi Stuart,
What are the guidelines for the project?
I was attempting to search what exactly is A-level computing, will you educate me on that?
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A-Levels are a set of exams (usually three hard subjects and one general) taken at age 18 and form the basis for admission to University.
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