ShinyHunters hacked Canvas during finals week and demanded a ransom. Why would anyone pay criminals who could just take the money and dump the data anyway? Pirates had the answer 300 years ago.
The Invisible Hook sounds like a very fun book. At the risk of sounding old and cranky, this incident brings nostalgia for the days when professors with some technical know-how hosted their own sites with all the notes, problem sets, their papers, and if you're lucky, some family photos!
I posted stuff on my own website when I first started teaching, but then realized the student pushback wasn't worth it. We still have 1-2 people in our department posting things on their own website, but we're essentially all on Canvas.
Great read; there was a Dutch movie about this years ago. Showed the game theory of negotiations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hijacking
The plot summary sounds really interesting!
The Invisible Hook sounds like a very fun book. At the risk of sounding old and cranky, this incident brings nostalgia for the days when professors with some technical know-how hosted their own sites with all the notes, problem sets, their papers, and if you're lucky, some family photos!
I posted stuff on my own website when I first started teaching, but then realized the student pushback wasn't worth it. We still have 1-2 people in our department posting things on their own website, but we're essentially all on Canvas.
I think the benefits of an all-in-one LMS are real, but then so are the issues around hacking I guess!
Cool post!