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Federal Judge Orders Schools To Stop Laptop Spying
CWmike writes "A federal judge on Monday ordered the Pennsylvania school district accused of spying on its students to stop activating the cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops. According to the original complaint, Blake Robbins was accused by a Harriton High School assistant principal of 'improper behavior in his home' and shown a photograph taken by his laptop as evidence. In an appearance on network television last Saturday, Robbins said he was accused by the assistant principal of selling drugs and taking pills — but he claimed the pictures taken by his computer's camera showed him eating candy. Also on Monday, the company selling the software used by the school district to allegedly spy on its students blasted what it called laptop theft-recovery 'vigilantism.'" jamie found two posts from stryde.hax pointing out suggestive information about one school district network administrator, and coaching students how to determine if their school-issued laptops were infected with the LANRev software used to operate the cameras remotely and in secret.
Silly, cheerleaders don't know how to use laptops.
But they know how to give lap dances!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
* Side note: Stop putting half a sentence in the damned heading and finish it in the body. It's bloody annoying to quote.
Like to.
When are the "cheerleaders getting dressed" videos going to leak? You know someone was making them...
I didn't know you were into that. I'll borrow my mom's car after this hot pocket and go by salvation army today to get a cheerleader outfit and e-mail the video to you. Not sure what the odds are that they'll have a 3xl cheerleader skirt though...
The cost was largely offset by the StudentSpyCam.tv website subscriptions.
You must be a software developer. While technically fulfilling what was asked for, you managed to satisfy none of the goals of the request.
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
You must be in management. You managed to state a request such that the most simple and direct interpretation of it directly opposed its actual goals, and then blamed the developer.