Posted on 02/22/2010 7:56:01 PM PST by Greysard
"This investigation into the remote spying allegedly being conducted against students at Lower Merion represents an attempt to find proof of spying and a look into the toolchain used to accomplish spying."
"The primary piece of evidence, already being reported on by a Fox affiliate, is this amazing promotional webcast for a remote monitoring product named LANRev. In it, Mike Perbix identifies himself as a high school network tech, and then speaks at length about using the track-and-monitor features of LanRev to take surreptitious remote pictures through a high school laptop webcam."
(Excerpt) Read more at strydehax.blogspot.com ...
Wow.
Great work/research.
I am not computer saavy (webtv is enough for out lifestyle).
So I was not able to digest all of the article but got the jist of it.
They main thing was forcing students to use the spycam laptops not able to use there own.
So when Mr. Pervix was turning on the webcams from a remote location was he able to watch in pic clicks or streaming live?
What is the difference between someone putting a spycam in your wall without your knowledge like peeping tom cams and what the schools were doing?
Thanks for posting.
This gets more more spooky, more and more pervvy..!!! Who doubts that those creepy teachers were getting off on this..?!
The next “jollies” this 300 pound guy is going to get might be with a live audience, underneath a 400-pound biker in prison.
If there was ever a case where the judiciary needs to “make examples”, this would be it.
You are concerned about a bill that as been introduced that would allow schools to teach perverted sexual practices to young minds that have no way of comprehending such material.
Well look at what they are already doing peep cams in the students homes.
Great article.
Must read.
Now we will see a lot of computers with black electrical tape over the lens of the built-in camera.
Perbix should die, screaming...
Big Brother IS watching you.
That’s the first thing I did to mine.
And that was before all this happened. First pc maker to build in a sliding hatch over that camera, will sell a million of them
How many of us are fully clothed every time we sit down at the computer to surf?
How likely is it that some kids are going to do their homework in various states of undress within the privacy of their own rooms?
This is absolutely appalling!
I just put it on mine.
Apply a smaller piece of tape in the middle backwards, sort of like the cotton square in a band-aid. That way when you do decide to use the camera you won’t have messed up the lens with the electrical tape goo.
(it doesn’t seem like goo now, but it will if you keep it taped on there long enough)
Way ahead of you. I used a band-aid. It looks bad, but since it’s just me an my cats here, who cares?
Now about that built in microphone. ;)
(only half joking)
If the school had not been using the webcams to try to locate “missing” laptops, what other method could they have used? A few come to mind but they would not have worked as well.
My guess would be that the mini-plug for the external mic on most pc’s, works with a contact switch like the old transistor radios did.
Plug in the earphone, and the radio speaker circuit was broken, until the ear phone was removed again.
Bet you can plug in a (switched) external mic, turned off, to disable the on-board microphone in most pc’s.
Or there’s always aluminum foil...
“Now about that built in microphone. ;)
(only half joking)”
This is not a joke. I’m sure that the next generation of laptops have been designed with a lens shutter and a physical switch with a air gap for the camera signal and microphone, rendering the machine’s audio/video pickup unhackable by software. Now, if someone else has physical control of the laptop, these things can be bypassed, of course, but still you would have the shutter.
What I find most amazing is this blew-up when a vice-principal confronted a student about something he was doing in the privacy of his home.
I’m just flabbergasted that this idiot administrator actually felt as if he was doing no wrong in spying on this kid.
OK I think I figured a quick fix for the mic.
Find the worst quality set of ear buds you ever bought, in the bottom of some drawer.
The ones with the rubber sponge gasket which is dissolving because they’re so old.
Cut the cord clean in half, just north of the plug. Throw out the ear buds - and plug the plug which now doesn’t even make a complete circuit - into your external mic jack.
Voila. :)
Two birds.
Yep. I wonder if this will give Kevin Jennings some ideas.
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