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Roland Gesthuizen

Resources: Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies | Digital Learning and Teaching V... - 0 views

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    "The Digital Technologies curriculum exists within the Technologies learning are of the Australian Curriculum. Implementation will commence in Victorian schools from 2015 with full implementation expected in all Victorian schools by 2017 .. Start now to familiarse yourself with some of the terminology within this new P-10 curriculum."
Roland Gesthuizen

Technology is completely upending the traditional idea of the self. - 0 views

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    "But just as changing the early European perspective on the universe had deep social and cultural reverberations, technologically driven disruption of our "self," and challenges to what we believe to be our fundamental identity, are potentially very disturbing psychologically and destabilizing socially"
Roland Gesthuizen

Spies blow their cover through the internet - 0 views

  • Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into divulging confidential information, either through the introduction of malware into computer systems through carefully crafted, personalised emails - spear phishing, obtaining access to security codes - or by orchestrating social contact with intelligence targets.
  • the abundance of personal and career information available on the internet posed a clear security risk for both government and the corporate sector, especially companies engaged in national security work or high technology activities
  • Defence Department security instructions require that ''when engaged in online forums … Defence personnel must exercise professional judgment to ensure no information breaches operational security''.
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    "HUNDREDS of former and some present Australian spies have posted information about their employment with intelligence agencies on the internet in what security experts have called ''a gift for foreign espionage''. "
Roland Gesthuizen

How NFL fans used Wi-Fi at the Super Bowl (Infographic) - FanSided - Sports News, Enter... - 0 views

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    "Fans at Super Bowl XLVIII got a different experience with Wi-Fi, they used Extreme Network's Purview. The new technology provides visibility into application use across the network, helping organizations in various ways. Aside from improving the experience of fans trying to connect, it allows the stadium to understand how the spectators are using Wi-Fi allowing them to optimize application performance."
Roland Gesthuizen

LG's texting washing machine? Tech firms are asking the wrong questions | Technology | ... - 0 views

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    "Instead of asking what functions can be added to existing products, they should be asking what we wish for"
Roland Gesthuizen

SMS 20th Anniversary | Text Messages Turn Twenty - 0 views

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    The first SMS message was sent 20 years ago this week. In Australia, we've been LOLing and WTFing for even less time than that - but some are already questioning how many birthdays the technology has left.
Roland Gesthuizen

High School IT - It's time to start from scratch - TechGeek - 0 views

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    "In response to the ever-increasing role of technology in society through various academic and engineering developments, one fundamental question remains in the movement to arrest the decrease in students studying Computing at high school and university: what should we be teaching about IT to high school students? "
David Howard

Australian spies in global deal to tap undersea cables | theage.com.au - 0 views

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    Australian spies in global deal to tap undersea cables | theage.com.au
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    Australian spies in global deal to tap undersea cables | theage.com.au
David Howard

Silk Road black market online drugs site seized, FBI arrests owner 'Dread Pirate Robert... - 0 views

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    Silk Road black market online drugs site seized, FBI arrests owner 'Dread Pirate Roberts' | theage.com.au
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    Silk Road black market online drugs site seized, FBI arrests owner 'Dread Pirate Roberts' | theage.com.au
Roland Gesthuizen

Web security in doubt after discovery of 'Heartbleed' flaw - 0 views

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    "Millions of websites, online stores and social networks are operating with a major security hole in place, exposing user information and financial information to hackers. That is because a core safety mechanism used to secure the internet has a flaw in it. Worse still, it has been in place for over two years and experts are unsure if it has been exploited for criminal or espionage purposes."
Roland Gesthuizen

Shell Shock: Bash bug labelled largest ever to hit the internet - 0 views

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    "A new security vulnerability found in everything from iPhones and laptops to light bulbs and web cameras has been dubbed by security experts as worse than Heartbleed, the bug found earlier this year that affected almost every device."
Roland Gesthuizen

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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    "Coding isn't just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab - it's for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just "read" new technologies - but also create them."
Roland Gesthuizen

Privacy Lost - Four Corners - 0 views

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    "When a contractor from America's National Security Agency (NSA) downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure Government network, it led to the largest leak of classified information in history - and sparked a fierce debate over privacy, technology and democracy in the post-9/11 world. "
Roland Gesthuizen

How UNSW has collected about $100,000 in piracy fines - 0 views

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    The University of NSW says it has issued 238 fines - estimated to total about $100,000 - to students illicitly downloading copyright infringing material such as movies and TV shows on its Wi-Fi network since 2008. UNSW told Fairfax Media on Thursday it made "no apology" for taking "strong action to discourage piracy, which is not only unlawful but unethical"
Roland Gesthuizen

Ten ways the internet can be shut down - 0 views

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    There are many ways to break the internet, and they don't necessarily involve Kim Kardashian.
Roland Gesthuizen

Bebras Australia | Computational Thinking - 0 views

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    "Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports the new Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum. Bebras is run by NICTA under the  Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Communications."
Roland Gesthuizen

iCloud celebrity photo hack: texts, address books and more 'also accessible' - 0 views

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    "It's not just nude photographs Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and other victims of the celebrity photo theft have to worry about being accessed by hackers - it's their GPS co-ordinates, private text messages, calendars, address books, phone call logs and any other data stored on their phones and backed up to the cloud."
Roland Gesthuizen

'Vexatious' digital activist forces Australian Electoral Commission to release secret c... - 0 views

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    "The Senate has forced the Australian Electoral Commission to disclose the source code of the software that counts Senate preference votes after the organisation refused to release it in response to a freedom-of-information request. "
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