1) a handful of schools
2) a small number of devices
3) not widespread
4) a very small number of devices
5) self-propagating network worm
Self-propagating it is, self-propagating over a network it doesn't seem to be. Is it more likely "A School in Bradford plugged an infected USB stick into laptops while setting them up, and disabling built-in antivirus in favour of some third-party less effective antivirus"?
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...
[2] https://www.enigmasoftware.com/wormwin32gamaruei-removal/
Last week I was bored,so ended up testing so cold google exploits. There are endless numbers of educational institutions with systems so crap that it's hard to believe. It took 15 min to find confidential salary data, various documents, messages, etc. Interestingly enough, most were US schools. I can only imagine what people with skills could do, instead of just googling,like me.
If it's a typo for "so called", I'd still love some info on what google exploits are.
In your example, that would consist of dwelling excessively on the small number of patients, and then burying the "highly contagious" part in a couple of semi-technical sentences near the end. Like we're all fretful hens who can't handle that information without significant preparatory plumage-smoothing.
Probably the messaging is, like all policies towards the poor and disadvantaged, well meaning, but those people who are most nannied by the state are, quite reasonably considering the way this always goes, less likely to trust the government’s statements. In this case presumably the DfE want to avoid parents pulling their children’s ability to get online school because of the latest government cock up.