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PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort

Posted by timothy on from the inspiration-comes-from-many-places dept.

holmesfsf writes "Creeped out by the Lower Merion School District's remote monitoring of students? Check out the Free Software Foundation's response to the laptop spying scandal and help build a wiki listing of school districts that provide students with laptops, so that the FSF can campaign against mandatory, proprietary laptops."

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  1. Re:Meh. by Enleth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1. Install VirtualBox.
    2. Install Windows as a guest (preferably the same version as host if it is Windows, or some believable version if the host is a *nix or whatever).
    3. Start the virtual machine in full-screen mode, with automatic USB and CD pass-through.
    4. Let them install all the crap they want, smiling and thanking them for it.
    5. Save the sate of the virtual machine just in case it's suddenly needed sometime in the future.
    6. ???
    7. Prifot, and a crap-free computer with a good VM system installed for other uses.

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