oraclecave:

oraclecave:

I told you guys that my school’s wifi got hacked by the Russian government right?

Disclaimer: we weren’t actually hacked by the Russian government

So last week, we were in physics first block with a substitute. And that means we weren’t doing anything. I’m literally sitting on top of a lab table when my friend who’s working in the hallway messages me: 

Do I believe her? No. But after a few more frantic messages, two visits to them in the hall, and another screenshot, I turned off my wifi. Better safe than sorry. 

By third period, most people in the school are freaking out and/or confused because we’re apparently getting hacked by the Russian government. 

What was actually happening was there was a script or a virus that had gotten onto all the computers that were shut down over the weekend. Files are getting locked down and things are just a general mess. 

We get to history, and lo and behold, new information! 1) There’s actually a legit problem and we should really get off the wifi. 2) The government teacher joked that the problem was because we’d been hacked by the Russian government. Thanks. 

Last block, they turned off the wifi. That wouldn’t have been as big of a problem our school wasn’t trying to go paperless and everyone has an iPad. Which meant free period!

All desktop computers were totally shut down the next day, so we did…almost nothing. A few days later, when the teachers could turn their computers back on, they couldn’t log on. All attendance had to be hand done, and bought lunches had to be written down on paper. Then when teachers could log on, the printers weren’t working. The wifi was still slow. We also still hadn’t solved the problem. 

At some point, the virus started to spread to the other school and superintendent’s office. And their wifi had to get turned off for a bit too. Someone started calling it Hydra, because it kept infecting more stuff when they tried to stop it. 

Basically, last week was a free week of none of the teachers know what to do and are panicking. 

Monday, only the teachers’ desktops were able to be logged into. And…some progress? We now have two printers in the school that work? 

Out of all of this, I’ve learned three things: 1) our tech office is not equipped to handle this situation, 2) we can’t do much without computers or wifi, and 3) sometimes the Russian government is really just a high schooler who doesn’t want to do work

ALSO! We were in history on Thursday when everyone in my class and the gov class next door got this: 

The teacher freaked out and told us not to accept it. But I had already clicked accept so I also got this picture out of this mess: 

tl;dr: the Russian government hacked my school wifi except it didn’t and there were cats and godzilla