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School spying: infected laptops mandatory, jailbreaking grounds for explusion
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School spying: infected laptops mandatory, jailbreaking grounds for explusion
By Cory Doctorow at 9:29 PM February 22, 2010

Here's an excellent investigative post on the surveillance technology and policy that Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District employed against its students. Two security researchers, "Stryde" and Aaron Rhodes, read through the web-posts and other material made public by the school administrators who maintained the laptop surveillance as well as student accounts of its use and reports on the policies that surrounded it:

* 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


http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2010/02/spy-at-harrington-high.html

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