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I went to sign up my kid for the local school's stupid SaaS product that, according to the school, has the main feature of adding a 2.9% transaction fee to all trips and other assorted school fees.

First, they tell me my password is too weak because it's over 20 characters
Second, https://www.school-day.com/en/terms-of-use

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Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊  
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poorly programmed with terrible security and management.

I wouldn't want my data in that.
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Chadee the Dream Witch 🌕 🌊 It's only supposed to handle data for my child's schooling and payments.

Ya know - nothing important?
@Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊  
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Yeah I've seen so many of these micro service companies.

They see the big money schools get and want a share, and they find a way to save administration time, they just do it very poorly.

I think it's more of a problem that school administrators and staff don't want to do the same work they've always done for their pay which is fair, but this isn't the way.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Chadee the Dream Witch 🌕 🌊 and I get that they are working on small budgets - but I literally wish it was replaced with nothing
@Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊  
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Just ask the school if you can do things the old way because that website doesn't look safe.

Maybe if they get enough people doing that they'll cancel their contract.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
https://gg4l.com/rampant-sharing-of-student-pii-is-a-risk-to-schools-and-edtech-vendors/ Oh.... I don't like this
Kicou
Kicou  
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you'll love it when your kids receive a Chromebook and do everything in Google Classroom

(oh, and the phone app wants admin rights on your device)
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Kicou it can have admin on a VM which only does things to annoy the Admin
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Jonathan Lamothe
Jonathan Lamothe  
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@Kicou @silverwizard If I had kids, stuff like this would drive me crazy.
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Jonathan Lamothe @Kicou We have compliance and security policies. How the fuck do I know if these people comply with PIPEDA?!
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The Corodon
The Corodon  
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School superintendents' main function seems to be as an attack surface for vendors like this.

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@The Corodon you mean to be attacked by vendors? Yeah it does
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Kicou my main problem is that my browsers all replace http with https for me and then don't let me go back without real effort

Also the https version exists, just is a 404
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