I'm sure you've encountered such thing yourself a lot of times. But every time it happens I am still stunned. I have a great interest in calculating the certain potentiality of things that can happen, like calculating the roll of a dice. Some say a coin can't fall on heads 10 times in a row, but if you continue long enough in your effort it will roll 10 times heads consecutively on some moment. And that is the problem with our idea of chance because we intermix limited time into the potentiality. Given infinite time everything can happen multiple times on the same moment. It's just a matter of relativity that makes things possible or impossible.
Today I read a story about an application that is supposed to store 480,000 profiles of Australian students. But since another website of theirs was hacked last month, people raised the question if they should continue storing sensitive data.
The online OneSchool database is almost impossible to hack, have been exposed after a security breach of a government website. A hacker planted "a distributed scripted attack against the internet with malicious intent" into the eTender website this month. The site is used by all private suppliers tendering for a state government contract and had 58 separate tenders on June 16, when the code was found and site shut.
Embarrassingly for Minister for Information and Communication Technology Robert Schwarten, his department still has not identified the culprit, nor does it know how long the code was there and the effect it had on website visitors. "This confirms all the security fears raised just a few weeks ago about OneSchool, which raises questions about the security for details of the 480,000 students proposed to go online this year", "If it can happen to that site, it can just as easily happen to the Government's proposals for the OneSchool database." Education Minister Robert Welford recently told ABC Radio the chances of a hacker getting into OneSchool was ".000000001" per cent.
.000000001 per cent? Right, that confirms that there is a chance. Obviously they don't get it. Go ahead, link your Intranet to the Internet, Let's see what happens if you do. don't say that we didn't warn you.
Vive Ignorance.
