Posted on 02/19/2010 6:51:10 AM PST by CJBernard
Furthermore, in the statement released a few hours ago, Lower Merion School District not only admits to the existence of the remote access capability (“[t]he laptops do contain a security feature intended to track lost, stolen and missing laptops”) which had indeed been active (“[t]his feature has been deactivated effective today”), but also admits to exactly who has the discretion to activate the feature (“the feature was activated by the District’s security and technology departments”) and comes clean on the lack of student or parental notification alleged by Robbins in the complaint:
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They are extremely sued.
I would be “disabling” that “feature”...................
They should all be fired. the whole administration of the district and the schools and the technology department.
They should be and will likely be going to jail.
My understanding is that this computer program (accessing the webcam remotely) is standand anti-theft material on all MAC laptops. The idea is that if the laptop is stolen, the owner can contact (not sure whom) to active the program to help locate the thief & laptop. Big brother starts small in helpful ways.
I saw this story this morning and was shocked that any group of people could be so stupid as to access cams of students when they were at home...
It simply amazes me how easily a mere School Board can so thoroughly violate the US Constitution, the problems with something like this that ought to be obvious to someone who is supposed to be in charge. Just last week another School Board got busted for proposing to hand out I-Pods to parents that they were going to buy with “stimulus” money.
Elvis has left the building folks. There are no adults in charge right now and for all intents and purposes, much of our elected Gubment at all levels is running along on auto-pilot and quite completely out of control. Some of the worst offenders are local politicos who are pulling crap like this all over the Country, and getting away with it clean.
Jail.
Yes, every head in power should roll for doing this to Americans. It is a huge violation of freedom. Government schools should be ended and vouchers should replace it. They are all corrupt and view themselves as the masters of free people.
So what was the behavior of the student....smoking weed? Reading dirty books, listening to Rush Limbaugh?
If they were Windows boxes, it could be turned on at any time by anyone with Administrative privileges.
Specifically, if the Remote Desktop Connection service is running, anyone with proper account credentials and connectivity to the box can do pretty much anything on the box.
Assuming that the laptops were joined to a domain, any district admin could do it. .
My God! That is criminal!!!
They were Apple laptops.
I am not shocked as there are a lot of perverted people out there. Heads should roll on this, and jail time for sure.
And schools should be giving take-home laptops because?
I don’t see the smoking gun yet that shows we have a Conspiracy From On High here to nose into students’ lives in accordance with the Great Commie Agenda. This is as easily attributed to stupidity as to malice.
For liability reasons alone, laptops loaned to students and taken off school premises should not even have cameras. A compromising photo that a student took could end up digging a hole in a school district’s deep pocket.
That's because many think they are the smartest guy in the company...and they act like that...all friggin day.
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