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Reply-All storm sparked by student smut sees school system shut down Google Classroom for up to a week
2020-08-17 08:56

UPDATED Around 90 Australian public schools will be without email for up to a week after students responded to mistaken use of a mailing list with horrible content, which in turn sparked a Reply-All storm that asked for the circulation of email nasties to stop.

The Directorate quickly came to the conclusion that "Students gained access to system email distribution lists and inappropriately used these to send emails to their peers."

Today the Directorate issued an update that confirms "The incident occurred when a student attempted to share their work with their classmates, accidentally using a global distribution list code. Other students 'replied all' and a small number of students shared inappropriate content, including pornographic imagery."

This will all take time: Google Classroom and Google Drive are due back online on Tuesday, with students told they'll enjoy "Access to their email accounts by the end of this week."

The organisation has made implemented security upgrades including "Limiting access to global groups, limiting the number of recipients a student can email, as well as updated internal filters."


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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/08/17/act_schools_email_incident/

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