E-mail says students and staff can't log in from abroad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds remarkably reasonable.

You know what would be reasonable? Opening the damn schools. If they don’t want to open the schools and insist that virtual learning is the same as in person then they can deal with people being abroad

What is more reasonable is being patient because we are almost out of this mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

Can you explain what this means? I don't really understand anything about tech or cyber security. How does logging in to school from another country or Hawaii make things vulnerable?

Citizens in many other countries have no right to privacy. If you bring your laptop and log in from abroad there is a good chance a state sponsored entity will have access to all content on your laptop or communicating through your connect. I for one don’t want a foreign actor recording my child when in class just so that’s you can go on vacation.

Staff really should be required to stay in district in a location that is conducive to a good virtual teaching experience. I keep hearing reports of teachers teaching class form the beach making the sound quality awful for the students. This is your job. Students should not be accommodating your beach vacation.

They also install stuff on your computer and/or phone in customs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

Can you explain what this means? I don't really understand anything about tech or cyber security. How does logging in to school from another country or Hawaii make things vulnerable?

Citizens in many other countries have no right to privacy. If you bring your laptop and log in from abroad there is a good chance a state sponsored entity will have access to all content on your laptop or communicating through your connect. I for one don’t want a foreign actor recording my child when in class just so that’s you can go on vacation.

Staff really should be required to stay in district in a location that is conducive to a good virtual teaching experience. I keep hearing reports of teachers teaching class form the beach making the sound quality awful for the students. This is your job. Students should not be accommodating your beach vacation.

They also install stuff on your computer and/or phone in customs.

Is Q now in DCUM

[Anonymous]

No biggie. Just log in with a VPN/proxy. Aloha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

Can you explain what this means? I don't really understand anything about tech or cyber security. How does logging in to school from another country or Hawaii make things vulnerable?

Citizens in many other countries have no right to privacy. If you bring your laptop and log in from abroad there is a good chance a state sponsored entity will have access to all content on your laptop or communicating through your connect. I for one don’t want a foreign actor recording my child when in class just so that’s you can go on vacation.

Staff really should be required to stay in district in a location that is conducive to a good virtual teaching experience. I keep hearing reports of teachers teaching class form the beach making the sound quality awful for the students. This is your job. Students should not be accommodating your beach vacation.

They also install stuff on your computer and/or phone in customs.

Is Q now in DCUM

DQUM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

Can you explain what this means? I don't really understand anything about tech or cyber security. How does logging in to school from another country or Hawaii make things vulnerable?

Citizens in many other countries have no right to privacy. If you bring your laptop and log in from abroad there is a good chance a state sponsored entity will have access to all content on your laptop or communicating through your connect. I for one don’t want a foreign actor recording my child when in class just so that’s you can go on vacation.

Staff really should be required to stay in district in a location that is conducive to a good virtual teaching experience. I keep hearing reports of teachers teaching class form the beach making the sound quality awful for the students. This is your job. Students should not be accommodating your beach vacation.

They also install stuff on your computer and/or phone in customs.

Is Q now in DCUM

DQUM

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

Can you explain what this means? I don't really understand anything about tech or cyber security. How does logging in to school from another country or Hawaii make things vulnerable?

Citizens in many other countries have no right to privacy. If you bring your laptop and log in from abroad there is a good chance a state sponsored entity will have access to all content on your laptop or communicating through your connect. I for one don’t want a foreign actor recording my child when in class just so that’s you can go on vacation.

Staff really should be required to stay in district in a location that is conducive to a good virtual teaching experience. I keep hearing reports of teachers teaching class form the beach making the sound quality awful for the students. This is your job. Students should not be accommodating your beach vacation.

They also install stuff on your computer and/or phone in customs.

Is Q now in DCUM

DQUM

Points for funny!

[Anonymous]

Lots of points! I must be hungry cause it made me think of ice cream! Maybe the “Urban Mama” can be the new blizzard flavor! What would be in it? Wine and...?

[Anonymous]

Use a secure VPN. We are using Express VPN. Reliable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does Hawaii count as “abroad”?

My first guess would be that content services in Hawaii are more expensive. I know Blackboard uses AWS but I don't know what the pricing is like for cloud services in Hawaii and Alaska.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A VPN will likely solve this issue.

Yup this is what we did when we lived abroad (although not for school reasons).

You can see VPNs from foreign servers, duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Erm, I doubt this is happening with the majority of public school teachers but OK. Yes, there have been teachers on social media showing that they are teaching from other places but they teach for private online companies like VIP Kid.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in cyber and we just (6 months ago) cut all access from abroad.

I get cyber purposely keeps people in the dark about threats but come on people... pandemic, vaccines, new president.

Can you explain what this means? I don't really understand anything about tech or cyber security. How does logging in to school from another country or Hawaii make things vulnerable?

Citizens in many other countries have no right to privacy. If you bring your laptop and log in from abroad there is a good chance a state sponsored entity will have access to all content on your laptop or communicating through your connect. I for one don’t want a foreign actor recording my child when in class just so that’s you can go on vacation.

Staff really should be required to stay in district in a location that is conducive to a good virtual teaching experience. I keep hearing reports of teachers teaching class form the beach making the sound quality awful for the students. This is your job. Students should not be accommodating your beach vacation.

The problem with teachers teaching from other locations then becomes a tax issue. I don’t know enough but I’m told that if you work from another state for a certain amount of time, you pay taxes in that state. This is why some HR departments are requiring employees to inform them if they’re working from outside their home state.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand how DCPS can prevent students from logging in from abroad.

You can just use a good VPN and you're into Canvas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about people who are already abroad? Sucks for them.

We are already (have been since last summer) and use a VPN. I have to use it for work too. Not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Also I didn't get an email about this. When did it come out?