Canvas is open source, but its cloud services ransomware attack really hurts

Link: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech, by Jason Koebler at 404 MediaI started in edtech. When I graduated with my Computer Science degree, I returned to the university to work at the Media and Learning Technology Service. There, I discovered that all the edtech software at the time was so bad — the learners hated it, the teachers hated it, the administrators hated it, and I have to assume the people who made it also had a deep-seated contempt for it — that it actively made learning worse. Worse, these platforms were charging institutions huge amounts of money for the privilege.Because I was an avid blogger at that time and knew that people were learning from each other on the web all the time, I built a prototype social network for learning and tried to give it to them. They told me they didn’t want it (in a way that was much ruder than that). So I quit my job and ended up releasing it under an open source…