GRC & IT Guide
A searchable reference of terms, notes and interview questions for a Compliance Officer role in real estate fintech, with GRC and IT behind it. It covers the compliance officer role, AML and sanctions (PCMLTFA and FINTRAC), Canadian laws and regulators, interview practice, and risk and compliance, controls, privacy law, frameworks, audits, third-party risk, incident response, IT security, Linux basics (including AppImage), AI governance, real estate fintech, and military and defence terms.
Use it
Open index.html in any web browser. There is nothing to install.
- Search from the top bar, or filter by domain in the left list.
- Entries link to related entries.
- Flashcards quiz you on the terms and interview questions in the current view.
- Some entries carry an Official sources section linking to the regulator or the law. Links can move, so search the name if one fails.
- A Zero Breach Toolkit section explains the separate open-source spyware-check tool (what it checks, how to read a result, its limits, and how to verify it before running). A reduced browser port is in
scanner/index.html (see scanner/NOTICE.md). The original is not bundled: interplains/zero-breach-toolkit.
- Treat the legal content as study notes, not legal advice. Entries tagged
check-status describe fast-moving rules, so confirm them on the regulator's site.
- Add, edit and delete your own entries. They are saved in your browser.
- Use Export to download a backup file, and Import to load one back, for example on another device.
Clearing your browser's site data erases your changes, so export a backup now and then.
Put it online with GitHub Pages
In the repository settings, open Pages, choose Deploy from a branch, pick the main branch and the root folder, and save. The guide will be served at the address GitHub shows.
Browser Guard
A small Chrome extension that rates your other extensions for spyware-like access, lists the trackers on each site you visit, and checks whether a proxy is redirecting your browsing. Press Browser Guard in the top bar to open its entry and download it. The zip is embedded in index.html, so the download works offline, and the entry shows its SHA-256. The readable source is in browser-guard/. To install, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and choose Load unpacked. It only reads; nothing is sent anywhere.
COBOL Workbench
The whole COBOL Workbench (13 lessons, editor and in-browser interpreter) is built into index.html. Press COBOL Workbench in the top bar, or open index.html#cobol. It runs in its own frame, so it does not affect the guide's entries. Its programs are saved separately in the browser.
AppImage Joiner
The whole AppImage Joiner (join split AppImage files, merge PDFs, split PDFs) is built into index.html. Press AppImage Joiner in the top bar, or open index.html#aj. Everything runs in the browser; nothing is uploaded. PDF handling uses pdf-lib 1.17.1 (MIT), embedded in the page (its licence text is included in the file).
CS50 computer-science sections
Three sections follow Harvard's CS50x week by week (Scratch, C, arrays, algorithms, memory, data structures, Python, SQL, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Flask, plus the AI and cybersecurity segments): CS50: Computer science, CS50: C & Python and CS50: Data, web & AI. Each entry is tagged cs50-w0 to cs50-w9, and a CS50 study map note lists them in order. The entries are original study notes, not course material. Official course: https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/
Spyware Scanner download
Press Spyware Scanner in the top bar for a note with a download button (the browser version of Zero Breach Toolkit, with its SHA-256) and step-by-step instructions. The readable file is also in scanner/index.html.
