Posted on 02/24/2010 7:32:11 AM PST by ShadowAce
I wonder where the students are who are refusing to comply with this?
If enough of them rebel, the school will have to back down.
One Ringey Pingey
Great graphic. I may grab that one and post it on any more threads on this topic.
The eye of my Apple?
For 2300+ PA state felonies, and 2300+ federal felonies, for all the members of the school administration who ordered, monitored, and used the spy capabilities, and for the technical people who installed the hardware/software, ...
... the temp fixes for such as this is usually called incarceration pending trial and sentencing.
There’s an easy way to disable a webcam. It’s called a sticky note.
1. Not enough funding for education.
2. Uncooperative, uninvolved, uncaring parents.
The public school system is out of control.
That only shuts off the use of the camera. It does nothing to prevent the package shipping back any and all pic/vid data stored on the laptop.
Good explanation of the monitoring software, and the work-arounds it had to do to bypass Apple's OS restrictions and lack of security in its operation.
As I've noted previously - It is dangerous to be right, when your government is wrong!
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Isn’t it crazy? When will the hot frogs realize that the plan is to boil them (us) alive?
There have been a lot of people on these threads trying to say “it probably didn’t happen the way the lawsuit says” or “these kids have no rights anyway”. Based on this article and my own knowledge of the field (M.S. in Computer Science) I will say right now that the charges in the lawsuit are correct, the school district has been spying on students in and outside of school. They may or may not have done this only for theft prevention purposes but this is NOT power that a school administrator should have.
Especially notice the bit in the story about the admin bragging about sending cops to hunt down a stolen laptop, and how they went to the wrong house because the real perps were stealing wireless. First off, how would you like to be the innocent people? Second, if the school sent the cops to the wrong address it means they were using more than just the camera to track the laptop. Just the camera would have sent them to the right place. They were actively figuring out what network the computer was on and WHO OWNED THAT NETWORK. Anyone see issues with that? It’s a good thing in that case that they did use the camera too or I bet the cops would have arrested the innocent homeowners. After all, the school apparently had enough evidence to get cops out there (and we’ll assume a warrant but who knows...)
This is VERY VERY disturbing, people!
Yeah? How about disabling the rest of it - like the software that let them figure out the address of the home with the wireless network that a missing computer was connected to? Might need more than a sticky note there.
The kids weren’t allowed to do it.
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The students themselves are claiming the following:
•Possession of a monitored Macbook was required for classes
•Possession of an unmonitored personal computer was forbidden and would be confiscated
•Disabling the camera was impossible
•Jailbreaking a school laptop in order to secure it or monitor it against intrusion was an offense which merited expulsion
The government schools really do believe that parents and kids are nothing but obstacles in their way, on the road to total power.
They lie. They steal. They demand taxes be paid to them.
Crush the school system, and homeschool.
/rant
It's can vs may and I think the POS administration is going to be taught the difference :-)
What should be the real wake up call is the arrogance of the school district in dictating this whole scenario, down to what the kids can and cannot do off school premises, and the fact that the parents and students just accepted it.
When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, attack the plaintiff. - R.Rinkle
I was wondering how long it was going to take before they slandered the plaintiff and set up the IT guy. Less than a week...that's got to be a record. /sarc
Howard vs. Colonial School District is the Delaware court ruling that started it all.
That is the amazing part, and the part that scares me the most.
The peaceful acceptance of totalitarian power into peoples children’s lives, and not a peep.
But first you have to suspect that the webcam is being used inappropriately/illegally.
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