Below are posts associated with the “platform dependence” tag.
🔗 linkblog: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech
Some important observations by Ian Linkletter in this interview.
🔗 linkblog: The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle
Definitely worth bookmarking this for semesters to come. I like Canvas as far as LMSs go, but the sheer scale of dependence here has me thinking about taking other approaches. This first paragraph is a doozy:
Higher education has long been a target of ransomware gangs and data extortion attacks. But never before, perhaps, has a cyberattack against a single software platform so thoroughly disrupted the daily operations of thousands of schools across the United States.