What’s up? How’s it going???
I believe that educational technology should be transparent. I think that security holes and issues with the product should be public. After all, it wouldn’t just hurt you. It could be teenagers, college students, even elementary schoolers.
Eduspire wasn’t doing that. I didn’t feel safe using their tool, because of the buggy and (at least back then) unreliable systems. When my high school proposed using it, I pushed back. I wanted to look into it first to see if there was anything wrong. And there was. Eduspire should have been more transparent about this. I feel I made the right choice by going through my district at first, but next time this happens I may as well file a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure request. People should not implicitly trust these platforms, just because of their status as the leader or pioneer in their field. Always verify whether something is safe. While I won’t provide them myself due to copyright issues, e‑hallpass still has source maps enabled in their frontend. You can go through and read all of their frontend source code as written. People should do that more often.