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Rapid course · Lesson 17 · English
Course code: OCA-002Lesson 17: OCA-002-A017

Friday's link change is a new agreement

Open, free learning for anyone who wants to protect people and technology. No account is required to read this text or its worked answers.

Lesson map

Lesson 17 published. Map, example, EX071.

flowchart TD
  E["Earlier agreement: new shares clinic-only, twelve files closed"] --> F["Friday proposal: turn off every existing link, including marketing"]
  F --> A{"Is there a new written agreement for that proposal?"}
  A -->|No| H["Do not apply it on the way out"]
  A -->|Yes| R["Apply only what the new line permits, then count again later"]

The old agreement had a scope. Friday is outside it.

Logical drawing

already agreed
    new shares default to clinic-only
    8 client files and 4 finance files closed
    marketing images may stay, because already public
Friday, technician leaving
    proposal to kill every remaining link
        |
        +-- marketing was a separate decision
        +-- a wider shutdown needs its own written agreement
        +-- no new export is produced here

Learning outcomes

After this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Keep Friday's proposal to disable every link outside the agreement already on file.
  2. Refuse to apply that proposal without a new written agreement from Dr. Moss.
  3. Leave the published share count unchanged, because no new export is run.

17.1 A permission is not a standing licence to go further

Dr. Moss agreed, in writing, to the changes Chapter 2 carried out: new shares default to clinic-only, the eight client files and four finance files come off open links, and the marketing images may stay because they were already public. On Friday the technician offers to switch off every remaining link before the weekend, including those images. The offer is tidier than the agreement. Tidiness is not consent. The ground rule still requires Dr. Moss's written agreement before a setting change. The earlier page does not mention a Friday shutdown of marketing.

Sofia asks the technician to leave the links as they are. If Dr. Moss later writes a wider change, that line states what may be turned off, and a later export is a new count, as Chapter 7 required. This lesson neither closes the marketing files nor edits the seed-2 script.

17.2 Worked example

Lesson table; scroll horizontally to read all columns →

Friday proposal Covered by the existing agreement? Decision
Turn off the links that were already closed Already done No further action
Turn off marketing because open links feel untidy Marketing was allowed to remain Wait for a new written line
Edit the lab so the print looks smaller tonight The script counts an export Refuse
Dr. Moss writes which folders may lose their links A new agreement Only then, and only those folders

Synthetic case. The seed-2 line stays the last counted total. No second total is printed.

Errors and limits

Leaving marketing open is not a finding that every file in that folder is harmless forever. A later monthly check can still notice a clinical image in the wrong folder, which is the photograph case in Chapter 1. Noticing one wrong file is not the same act as Friday's blanket shutdown.

Apply

Worked answers

EX071. Hold the Friday shutdown of every remaining link, including marketing, until Dr. Moss writes a new agreement. The earlier page does not cover that proposal. Do not invent a new open-file total.