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Back in June of this year, it was announced that 3500 fingerprint biomedics ATMs would be installed in one of the largest banks in Brazil. 

So this is how Brazil is using technology… by providing to their people security and efficiency.  Soon you will no longer need pins to log in to your account via an ATM.  You will simply swipe your card, and place your finger on the finger pad and you will be identified and prompted to your account information.

I am amazed to hear about this, because for so many years, I constantly hear how Brazil is a 3rd world country and how it has all these issues, but truth be told, we seem to be more advanced than in America since I still haven’t seen an ATM that has fingerprint biomedics. 

-Bianca Moura

What tips does the CEO of SplashData give for creating a unique password?

Megain Slain which is the CEO of SplashData says it’s best to have differente password for all of your accounts… If one of your accounts gets hacked into, the possibility of your other accounts being in jeopardy is high if you have the same password for all of your account.  But if you have different passwords for all of your accounts, one password gets broken, and your other accounts are still safe.   Mergain goes to advice on how to created complex passwords; one way of doing this is thinking of passwords as paraphrases such as ‘dog eats bone’ and add different characters to the sentence such as slash, underscore, exclamation marks, etc…  Your password will look something like this: ‘dog_eats_bones!’

There are other ways of making your passwords more complicated, such as usingt he first letter of each word within a sentence and adding capital and characters to make it even harder to breat.  For example, take the sentence ‘my cat sleeps under the tree’ and you created McSUtT32#

Why are passwords important?

Passwords are important because we store so much personal information within our devices as well as in the internet.  The damage that a person can do with your information is endless.  It can go far beyond just identity theft.  But imagine the information you transmit in your emails to your closed friends and family, or even business wise; if someone can get a hold of that information, it can harm you extensively.  Also, when you bank online, would you want anyone knowing how to access your account?  They can make purchases, clean out your account, and maybe even open another account under your credentials. 

If we don’t protect ourselves with passwords, we are hading our lives to strangers that can make it a living hell tryng to get it back. 

– Bianca Moura

I have never learned or worked with MSAccess.  But know that people work on this database to make large projects simpler and faster.  Unlike Excel, this database is capable or working in a large capacity.  From what I understand you only need to change data in one area in Access, and if the data is linked anywhere else, it automatically changes.  Unlike Excel where you can find something and change it, but if it is mispelled, it wont find all of the data needed to be changed; causing your report not to be accurate.

I know that Access can be used for pulling out reports, such as sales report.  i.e. you can have sales rep, accounts, weekly sales, product, and you can pull out a report to see how much $ a particular sales rep has made.  or how many product the sales rep has sold.

It might be much simpler than what it seems, but for me, this seems complicated.  But definitely can’t wait to learn how to use it.

-Bianca Moura

I have tried looking through the posts (profiles) but can’t seem to find my teammates.  so if you are in team 19, please go through my profile and send me a message.

Bianca moura

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