Rock knocks out Nanaimo school district computers
Nanaimo, British Columbia, November 2007
According to a Nanaimo Daily News report dated November 24, 2007, rocks were thrown through the windows of the band room at Nanaimo District Secondary School and at the district administration office, tipping over an air conditioner, which cools the district’s communications servers and helps to keep them operational.
The district’s auto-dial phone system, which calls substitute staff when regulars are sick or away from work, stopped receiving and sending calls by 10pm on Thursday, November 22. Staff showed up to work Friday morning and found they had lost access to all servers and the internet. Teachers across the district had no e-mail and many schools would have been without substitutes and support staff if not for prepared staff at the district office, who implemented a backup plan to get staff to the schools.
District staff “had no idea what had been requested and what had been filled,” said communications officer Donna Reimer. They “had to wait until people started arriving at the schools” in order to figure out who wasn’t there and then manually fill the positions that were vacant.
Confrontation 
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