Most of us have been freaked out by people of all sorts some point in our life but have you ever been freaked out by a machine? I certainly did yesterday. So the incident goes like this...
As many of you know, the start of a school year is one of the busiest times of a year for a teacher and the same goes for me. So I was logging onto my classroom computer in a rush to type up a sign up schedule for teachers before I did some testing on students and had a meeting with another colleague when--I lost control!
After logging in, I wanted to click on Internet Explorer to check my email first but the mouse pointer was moving against my will in the opposite direction and had its own agenda by clicking into various items before going into WordPad and then TALKING to me! For the first few seconds, I thought I had been overworked and was hallucinating but no. It turns out to be the district's IT HelpDesk remotely controlling my computer and telling me what it was doing, so I would just let it control MY machine! Well...before I knew it, I was having a full conversation with my machine...
So yes, I got hacked. But no, it wasn't bad. Reminds me of the power of the remote district though...they can read and know everything we do on those computers.
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