[Year 12 IT Apps] Data security

Fri Apr 17 17:10:07 AEST 2015

I think Hogwarts would use a bean jar to tally the points. They had some problems with a trial of interactive magical chalkboards.

I rather like the notion of a ITA workshop to script, record and shoot a breif skit that explains normalisation to students. We could have fun making and filming this at the DLTV conference. Just need some wizard wands and call upon the help of DATA from star-trek.

Sorry, one of those weeks. My kids are in the Scouts Gangshow and its starting to ramp up and take over the house.

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Roland GESTHUIZEN
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> On 17 Apr 2015, at 3:27 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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> Well done, sir! Ten points to Gryffindor.
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> 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... 
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> "Harry Potter and the Normalisation of the Hogwarts RDBMS, with a bonus ERD and Data Dictionary."
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> She loves the idea. Expect the hardback in December and the movie in 2017.
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> On 17 April 2015 at 14:59, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au <mailto: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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> From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au <mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au>] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
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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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> On 17 Apr 2015, at 12:42 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto: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.
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> 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/ <http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/>
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