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Gaytano70

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3. Speaking as one of those professors...

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #2)

Fri May 8, 2026, 06:43 AM

Yesterday

It is definitely a cyberclusterfuck beyond anything I could have imagined. I teach 80 students each semester, and all the assignments and grades are locked inside the ransomware.
Finals are THIS week where I teach, so the hackers knew they would cause the greatest disruption by launching their attack yesterday.
It will be interesting to see if Canvas pays the ransom.
Maybe centralized LMS's in the cloud are not the best way to manage learning after all 🤔

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