The Persistence of Memory

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: M. E. KABAY ON SECURITY
07/07/05
Today's focus: The Persistence of Memory

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Today's focus: The Persistence of Memory

By M. E. Kabay

In 1931, the famous Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali
painted soft watches folded over a twig, an edge and a face in a
bleak and desolate landscape; he called it "The Persistence of
Memory." I remembered this painting and especially its title
when my colleague John Orlando told me about a recent unpleasant
incident caused by the persistence of a different kind of
memory: an archived Web page.

An applicant to one of the Norwich University online graduate
programs recently became very angry when the tuition he was
charged in his first invoice was a couple of thousand dollars
more than he expected for his first semester. As Norwich staff
scrambled to figure out what had happened, the student showed
them the Web pages with the lower tuition clearly displayed.

It turned out that the student had located pages - and tuition -
that were about four years old. The university had contracted
back then with a service that advertised the first online
program but had terminated the contract a year later. Instead of
removing the pages from the Web, the service had archived those
pages on a server with no external links pointing to it, or so
they thought.

Unfortunately for our student, search engines continued to index
the archive pages despite the intention of their creators. So
several years after the old information should have been retired
from the world, our student based his decision to enter our
program in part on the out-of-date tuition available through
up-to-date search-engine results.

In my next column, I'll discuss how Web designers try to
communicate with search engines to say, "SHHHH. Don't tell
anyone this page is here."

In the meantime, if you plan to make operational use of any Web
page supplied by a search engine, you might want to check the
copyright date on the page.
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To contact: M. E. Kabay

M. E. Kabay, Ph.D., CISSP, is Associate Professor in the
Division of Business and Management at Norwich University in
Northfield, Vt. Mich can be reached by e-mail
<mailto:mkabay@norwich.edu> and his Web site
<http://www2.norwich.edu/mkabay/index.htm>.

A Master's degree in the management of information assurance in
18 months of study online from a real university - see
<http://www.msia.norwich.edu/>
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