Created by a student who achieved 10 grade 9s at GCSE, this mindmap covers everything you need to know from Section 2.2 of the OCR GCSE Computer Science specification, Programming fundamentals. Be sure to check out the other mindmaps in this series!
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Misuse may be in the form of a brute force attack on the program.
Many programs and systems only allow a user to enter a
password three or four times before it locks out the system. Anticipating misuse
The program should be able to identify when a user keeps inputting the same data.
a check made by a computer to ensure that the data entered is sensible or reasonable.
cannot check that it is correct because a user may lie or make a mistake. again
attempts to ensure that it is within certain limits or rules.
the last 1 or 2 digits in a code are used
bar code readers in supermarkets check digit
to check if the other digits are correct
NI number in the format LL 99 99
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