I need to fill in a bit of background knowledge before this next story. I have had this aide this year who is, lets say, "technologically challenged." She has had some trouble with email, printing, word processor, turning on computers, and using google. I have tried to be patient with her inexperience, however after showing someone how to bold a word over five times, my patience is done. But, I digress.
The past two days, the school email service has not worked. The tech coordinator has been on the phone constantly for two days trying to figure out the problem. No one seemed to know what the problem was because no other schools were having this problem. Today, my aide gets a phone message saying she needs to call the tech coordinator. Come to find out, someone had hacked into her email and started spamming, thus overloading the system and crashing the server. The woman who cannot use word processor crashed a server.....now that is talent.
I discussed with her how yes, this happens and it just means she needs to make her email password stronger. Her response, "oh so I should not leave it on the default of 911--the password everyone is given at the beginning of the year?" **Face Palm**
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