Edtech

HTTPS inspection is a function provided by many Internet security vendors marketed at schools and businesses since it promises to remove encryption from web traffic and ensure that everything is visible to the filtering system where it can be checked for malware or flagged for inappropriate content. This worked fairly well a decade ago but in the post-Snowden era of pervasive encryption and advancing Internet security standards, this cannot deliver what it once promised and instead puts us and our networks at risk....

I’ve been working in the education sector for almost a decade and after so long a great many things that inform my thinking become assumed, unacknowledged. Some of my greatest revelations have come from describing the things we do, the problems we have and the ways we fix them to folk outside of our wheelhouse. That’s what this post is; it’s a primer on attitudes to technology in schools through the lens of cybersafety....