It seems to be this system can be defeated quite easily—a piece of electrical tape over the webcam.
Yeah, it takes about 3 seconds of thought to solve this problem. It will probably cost tax payers millions and millions in studies, panels, recommendations and failed technological solutions.
And the parents or kids will then just do exactly what you said...
That would assume that you knew about the threat. The families were never informed the district had the ability.
What? That makes it OK for the school district to impose this kind of totalitarian requirements on its students?
That only shuts off the use of the camera. It does nothing to prevent the package shipping back any and all pic/vid data stored on the laptop.
Good explanation of the monitoring software, and the work-arounds it had to do to bypass Apple's OS restrictions and lack of security in its operation.
As I've noted previously - It is dangerous to be right, when your government is wrong!
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But first you have to suspect that the webcam is being used inappropriately/illegally.
What about the microphone?
I read an article about a year or so ago that mentioned something about the cam actually being in the center of the laptop monitor.. so that when you were online chatting with someone, it would appear that you were looking directly at them...
I’m not sure if this technology is out there yet.. but THAT is a scary thought.. and I don’t think that tape would work >.<
Have you heard anything about that, and how far along they are with that kind of technology?
Bikk