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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2010, 10:15:36 AM »
That wasn't actually aimed at you. :)
I was just putting out the question.

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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2010, 10:23:25 AM »
That wasn't actually aimed at you. :)
I was just putting out the question.

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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2010, 10:24:21 AM »
What has the school got to do with what's going on at home?

Not defending this by any means because it's way uncalled for. However, from what I heard on the news about this story is that they were doing this as a means of detecting where a laptop was in the event that it was lost.
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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2010, 10:57:35 AM »
It hasn't been publicly said but I think the kid was having personal time with a p0rn site. If that's the image they snapped then they committed a felony. By law you can not knowingly save an image, video or whatever of a *censored* minor without being in the act of committing a crime. Some states dictate that you can't even view it accidentally without being held accountable.

If your take home computer is rigged with surveillance software they should have been made aware of it.

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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2010, 11:22:10 AM »
Not defending this by any means because it's way uncalled for. However, from what I heard on the news about this story is that they were doing this as a means of detecting where a laptop was in the event that it was lost.
Yeah. It was. That's perfectly fair. They're trying to protect their property. I wouldn't mind my school doing that with IT property lent out. What isn't fair, (or legal, I imagine) is the use which is has been put to by that school. It's clever, someone reports their laptop as stolen, the laptop takes a picture of the person using it, and sends it's IP address to the school. Theft and loss protection, plus a deterrent. But, it's old news school trying to work out what there pupils are up too. My school recommends all students install a "Internet Safety Suite" provided by them on every computer they connect to the internet on. AVG flagged it as a keylogger. It's seeming only other purpose is to block pretty much everything that's a flash file or an image. Badly.



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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2010, 11:49:10 AM »
If it was a safety tool for recovering stolen property it should only be activated in the event of a theft. Anything more is abuse.

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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2010, 11:51:18 AM »
If it was a safety tool for recovering stolen property it should only be activated in the event of a theft. Anything more is abuse.
Sorry. That's what I meant  :-[



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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2010, 02:04:01 PM »
if you guys think that's outrageous, did you know my local grocery store is charging more for red Onions as opposed to white or yellow? It's MADNESS I tell you! MADNESS!
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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2010, 02:25:04 PM »
if you guys think that's outrageous, did you know my local grocery store is charging more for red Onions as opposed to white or yellow? It's MADNESS I tell you! MADNESS!
Right. I didn't know there were yellow onions.



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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2010, 02:36:03 PM »
There's alot of them...and their out there.
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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2010, 03:03:56 PM »
There's alot of them...and their out there.

I saw a blue onion once. Well, I thought it was a blue onion, it later turned out to be a Apple. And it wasn't even blue. I was probably on a trip though.

Anyway, to add something on-topic, personally <I> have trouble using my own webcam. half the time I find the drivers don't work, and then I have to go searching for some badly named function somewhere that let's me see what I already know is in front of my webcam, because my memory is so short I forget what happened within the 2 ms or so lag time of the camera itself.

The sad part is I'm half serious. I used the webcam on my laptop once, and I reinstalled since then. I might not even have the driver installed for it.
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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2010, 03:13:29 PM »
Anyway, to add something on-topic, personally <I> have trouble using my own webcam. half the time I find the drivers don't work, and then I have to go searching for some badly named function somewhere that let's me see what I already know is in front of my webcam, because my memory is so short I forget what happened within the 2 ms or so lag time of the camera itself.

The sad part is I'm half serious. I used the webcam on my laptop once, and I reinstalled since then. I might not even have the driver installed for it.
Well, you won't be in danger of someone spying on you then.
I on the one hand wanted to use my webcam. It is SOO hard to find drivers for a 5 year old piece of Logitech crap. Windows 7 compatible... that is.



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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2010, 03:19:59 PM »
Well, you won't be in danger of someone spying on you then.

darn.

And I just sang the Onion song! Well that was a bigger waste of talent then that "rock" who played that piece of igneous on that one episode of star trek. I had posters for "the star trek rock" all over. Then I learned he wasn't a rock at all, but a piece of shaped foam. And that was the last I ever saw of my father.

On a completely unrelated note, the pink bear wearing a tutu is telling me I should probably get some sleep soon. Or else there will be dire consequences such as being forced to drink carbonated soft drinks really really fast so the carbonation has a momentary but extremely painful burning effect on my esophagus.
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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2010, 04:53:05 PM »
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eSarcasm has obtained shots taken by the student Web cams. After hours of careful study, we can confirm the affluent school district is under siege by a ring of nubile notebook nabbers, all of them young women between the ages of 14 and 17, including a disproportionate number of cheerleaders and prom queens

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Re: High school spys on students with web cams
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2010, 04:59:49 PM »
The National Media has picked up on this.

Two things I took from the report were:

1) The computers are issued to all of the students (affluent neighborhood) and they are all Macs!
- I wonder if Apple helped them "rig" the computers with spyware and can be held in-part liable?

2) There was not one mention of the image that was shown to the student as described in the web article.
- Is the picture sensationalism or did the sensational seeking media just leave that part out?

I report. You decide!! lol  (|