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ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 · Modules 876–944

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A free printable ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 crossword with 10 clues, built from the key terms of Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities and Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints (Modules 876–944) — Brute-forcing a Caesar cipher in Python, Vigenere cipher in Python, The XOR cipher, Base64 is encoding, not encryption, One-way functions, Hashing text with hashlib in Python and more. Print it or save it as a PDF — the answer key starts on its own page. No login needed.

ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 Crossword: Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities and Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints (Modules 876–944)

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Read each clue and write the matching term in the grid. Numbers in brackets show the letters in each word.

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  1. 4. The APPs make organisations handle personal data responsibly (clear policy, minimal collection, security, correction) and give people ______: consent, anonymity, access, correction and complaint. Word 4 of: APP ______ and ______ (6)
  2. 5. The 13 APPs grouped by what happens to data: openness (1-2), collection (3-5), use and disclosure (6-9), quality and security (10-11), access and correction (12-13). Word 2 of: APP _________ groups (9)
  3. 7. A calculation that is easy to do forwards but practically impossible to reverse, like mixing paint. It is the idea behind hashing and public-key encryption. Word 3 of: ___-way ________ (8)
  4. 9. Word 5 of the term in 6 Down: hashlib.sha256(text.______())._________() (9)
  5. 10. Word 2 of the term in 4 Across: APP ______ and ______ (6)

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  1. 1. An organisation or government agency that must follow the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988, such as federal agencies, health providers and larger businesses. Word 2 of: APP ______ (6)
  2. 2. List the data a solution collects, test each item against the relevant APPs as met, partly met or not met, then recommend changes that shrink the footprint. Word 2 of: privacy ________ (8)
  3. 3. A loop that tries every Caesar shift from 1 to 25. Each pass decrypts the message and prints the shift beside the result, so you can spot the readable one. Word 4 of: for shift in _____(1, 26): (5)
  4. 6. Python code that turns text into bytes, hashes it with SHA-256 and returns a fixed-length hex string. Same input gives the same hash; one changed letter gives a new hash. Word 4 of: hashlib.sha256(text.______())._________() (6)
  5. 8. Word 1 of the term in 7 Across: ___-way ________ (3)

Answer Key

ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 · Modules 876–944
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4RIGHTS — The APPs make organisations handle personal data responsibly (clear policy, minimal collection, security, correction) and give people ______: consent, anonymity, access, correction and complaint. Word 4 of: APP ______ and ______
5LIFECYCLE — The 13 APPs grouped by what happens to data: openness (1-2), collection (3-5), use and disclosure (6-9), quality and security (10-11), access and correction (12-13). Word 2 of: APP _________ groups
7FUNCTION — A calculation that is easy to do forwards but practically impossible to reverse, like mixing paint. It is the idea behind hashing and public-key encryption. Word 3 of: ___-way ________
9HEXDIGEST — Word 5 of the term in 6 Down: hashlib.sha256(text.______())._________()
10DUTIES — Word 2 of the term in 4 Across: APP ______ and ______
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1ENTITY — An organisation or government agency that must follow the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988, such as federal agencies, health providers and larger businesses. Word 2 of: APP ______
2CRITIQUE — List the data a solution collects, test each item against the relevant APPs as met, partly met or not met, then recommend changes that shrink the footprint. Word 2 of: privacy ________
3RANGE — A loop that tries every Caesar shift from 1 to 25. Each pass decrypts the message and prints the shift beside the result, so you can spot the readable one. Word 4 of: for shift in _____(1, 26):
6ENCODE — Python code that turns text into bytes, hashes it with SHA-256 and returns a fixed-length hex string. Same input gives the same hash; one changed letter gives a new hash. Word 4 of: hashlib.sha256(text.______())._________()
8ONE — Word 1 of the term in 7 Across: ___-way ________

Modules this crossword covers

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Part of: ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Cyber Security Threats and Vulnerabilities, ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Privacy Principles and Digital Footprints, QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4 — Digital Methods for Exchanging Data, QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4 — Complex Digital Data Exchange Problems and Solution Requirements, QCE Digital Solutions Unit 4 — Prototype Digital Data Exchanges, WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Data Management, WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Cyber Security

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