[Year 12 IT Apps] Data security

[Mark]

Well done, sir! Ten points to Gryffindor.

Have you ever pondered what sort of database Hogwarts used to tally house
points, and how they got it to 3NF?
I have suggested a follow-up novel to JKR...

"Harry Potter and the Normalisation of the Hogwarts RDBMS, with a bonus ERD
and Data Dictionary."

She loves the idea. Expect the hardback in December and the movie in 2017.


On 17 April 2015 at 14:59, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> “We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It
> was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the
> rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than
> concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now
> that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in
> the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a
> stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”
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>  Mark Scott
> Daily Administrator
> Luther
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Friday, 17 April 2015 2:50 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Data security
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> During 2008, I briefly amused myself with a price-checking terminal in a
> popular department store in the States whilst my wife was happily buying
> jeans that were on sale. Lacking a smart phone, I poked around the various
> menu option, the application halted and suddenly crashed. I suddenly found
> myself in a security hole where I could drop to a file explorer window. To
> my surprise, the device was running WIndows-Lite, a similarly primative OS.
> I could walk up and down the entire file tree, looking at the folder names.
> I could not see the contents but did have the odd privilege of making
> folders. From memory, I created a root level folder called “Please Secure
> Me”, took some souvenir photographs and departed when I was handed an
> armful of freshly purchased jeans.
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> I was trying to remember a remark that Harry Harrison once made about
> Stainless Steel Rats that live in technologically advanced civilisations.
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> *Roland GESTHUIZEN*http://about.me/rgesthuizen
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> On 17 Apr 2015, at 12:42 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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> Found in my travels. This is from 2014, which makes the story even more
> chilling in 2015.
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> *Banks everywhere are in a race against time to upgrade their ATMs before
> they become hot targets for hackers.An estimated 95% of American bank ATMs
> run on Windows XP, and Microsoft is killing off tech support for that
> operating system on April 8 [2014]. That means Microsoft (MSFT) will no
> longer issue security updates to patch holes in Windows XP, leaving those
> ATMs exposed to new kinds of cyberattacks.*
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> http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/
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> Mark Kelly
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> mark AT vceit DOT com
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> http://vceit.com
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> >> Witty sig goes HERE <<

Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com
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