School Uses Students' PCs To Spy on Them at Home

MADOGRE said:
I want to know more before I pass judgment here.
I have a 10 year old son, and I would not want this to happen, but if he took some ones laptop, and they did this and while he was using said laptop they took pics of him doing some thing against the rules I would not be upset with the school system.
Click to expand...

Are you serious? If a school administrator ever set eyes within my home without my consent, either physically or electronically, I would sue the everliving shit out of them. It's a weak second to execution, but I can't legally do that so.....
 
Turtle1776 said:
Were I a student there, my first action would be taking a semi-nude cam shot of myself and using it as my desktop.
Click to expand...

And then YOU could be arrested for creating child porn.

And distributing it.

Yes. Seriously.
 
I hope the civil suit, as well as federal charges, go through on this one. Those school officials are so full of shit. They can play ignorant all they want, but when all is said and done it was the school officials that authorized the use of those systems. Not the IT department they are pointing fingers at.
 
The company that sells the software used to spy on those school children apparently did not approve of the way the software was used. A company spokesman said a patch to disable the camera feature is in the works.

Absolute Software said it dissuades users of theft-recovery software from acting on their own. "We discourage any customer from taking theft recovery into their own hands," said Stephen Midgley, the company's head of marketing, in an interview Monday. "That's best left in the hands of professionals."
Click to expand...
 
Doesn't surprise me too much. The guy was writing wrappers to enable "curtain mode" and I'm sure to allow camera activation outside of the theft system.
 
electrical tape, created what 140 years ago, is still your best defense! you only need 1" for a webcam! :D
 
Steve said:
The company that sells the software used to spy on those school children apparently did not approve of the way the software was used. A company spokesman said a patch to disable the camera feature is in the works.
Click to expand...

lol love how it took a public spotlight for the company to push a patch out. Doesn't approve? Yeah ok, whatever you say.
 
Being Canadian I have always felt that Americans have been too quick to sue someone, but being that I'm a parent as well. I'm behind the family 110%. I want to see this become a big court case. I really hope that it doesn't get settled out of court. Only time will tell where this is going to go.
 
Temo Vryce said:
Being Canadian I have always felt that Americans have been too quick to sue someone, but being that I'm a parent as well. I'm behind the family 110%. I want to see this become a big court case. I really hope that it doesn't get settled out of court. Only time will tell where this is going to go.
Click to expand...

Ugh... They broke US Federal privacy and I'm pretty sure wire tapping laws. People will go to jail for this. This will not get settled easily.
 
Steve said:
The company that sells the software used to spy on those school children apparently did not approve of the way the software was used. A company spokesman said a patch to disable the camera feature is in the works.
Click to expand...
Looks like THEIR lawyer wanted to get in front of this before the shit splattered them. They're throwing this LMSD IT guy Mike Perbix under the bus.

BTW, here is a list of LMSD IT staff.

Anyone know any of the people here? Maybe you can contact them and ask wassup? :D
 
Sounds like the software company was afraid of being drug into this case. They are playing the cover your ass card by saying they didn't intend for this type of use. They knew exactly what the capabilities of their software was. Too bad there are no Mulligans in life.
 
This story just gets better and better. I wonder if these ass clowns are sleeping at night :D
 
qdemn7 said:
Looks like THEIR lawyer wanted to get in front of this before the shit splattered them. They're throwing this LMSD IT guy Mike Perbix under the bus.

BTW, here is a list of LMSD IT staff.

Anyone know any of the people here? Maybe you can contact them and ask wassup? :D
Click to expand...

Well the LMSD Superintendent would have his nuts in the legal noose for sure.
I would assume that the Director of Information Systems should be supplying the lube for his cell mate as well. Could the network techs just claim they were following orders? Although Perbix looks like a willing participant according to his postings on the Internet.
Where was the LMSD legal dept. before the implementation of this bunch of fail????
 
necrosis said:
I don't call things spyware unless that is it's sole/primary/designed for purpose.
Click to expand...

Then you are playing a deluded and dangerous game of semantics. LANRev was never "intended" to be used in the manner it was and yet it was used that way, deliberately. If that doesn't make it spyware, then I don't know what does. It was used to spy on people. There is irrefutable proof that this occurred and you are going to call it just a rose. Have fun playing in fantasy land.
 
more news:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...udge_orders_Pa._schools_to_stop_laptop_spying

Federal judge orders Pa. schools to stop laptop spying

A federal judge yesterday ordered the Pennsylvania school district accused of spying on its students to stop activating the cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops.

,,,,,,,,

In their Friday filing, the Robbins accused school district employees, including the superintendent, Christopher McGinley, with making "loud speaker announcements to all students allegedly commenting on the litigation, making false and untrue accusations [and] disparaging the Plaintiffs."

The school district must also preserve all electronic evidence, including any photographs taken by remotely activated laptop cameras. Blake Robbins' MacBook is also to be examined by a third-party computer forensics expert, DuBois said.
 
pgaster said:
more news:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...udge_orders_Pa._schools_to_stop_laptop_spying

Federal judge orders Pa. schools to stop laptop spying

A federal judge yesterday ordered the Pennsylvania school district accused of spying on its students to stop activating the cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops.

,,,,,,,,

In their Friday filing, the Robbins accused school district employees, including the superintendent, Christopher McGinley, with making "loud speaker announcements to all students allegedly commenting on the litigation, making false and untrue accusations [and] disparaging the Plaintiffs."

The school district must also preserve all electronic evidence, including any photographs taken by remotely activated laptop cameras. Blake Robbins' MacBook is also to be examined by a third-party computer forensics expert, DuBois said.
Click to expand...

...That's it? I seriously hope they are still investigating this and some criminal charges are brought up.
 
That superintendent is toast! Smearing your accusers over the school loudspeaker can only make things worse,it sounds like the desperate act of someone who knows they're guilty as sin.
 
pgaster said:
more news:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...udge_orders_Pa._schools_to_stop_laptop_spying

Federal judge orders Pa. schools to stop laptop spying

A federal judge yesterday ordered the Pennsylvania school district accused of spying on its students to stop activating the cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops.

,,,,,,,,

In their Friday filing, the Robbins accused school district employees, including the superintendent, Christopher McGinley, with making "loud speaker announcements to all students allegedly commenting on the litigation, making false and untrue accusations [and] disparaging the Plaintiffs."

The school district must also preserve all electronic evidence, including any photographs taken by remotely activated laptop cameras. Blake Robbins' MacBook is also to be examined by a third-party computer forensics expert, DuBois said.
Click to expand...
Loud speaker announcements? Wow. The guy is a freaking idiot. This just gets better and better.
 
robble said:
I'm not sure what report you read, but the expulsion is because they saw the boy playing with "pills" (boy claims it was candy).
Click to expand...

Disabling the camera in any way is grounds for expulsion, according to information contained in a link in the past couple pages.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top