Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania issued laptops to its high-school students and encouraged them to take them home. Then it used the remotely-activatable webcams on the laptops to spy on the students and their families without their knowledge. (Update: Another story on it says webcam-equipped laptops were issued to 1,800 students at three high schools.)
A class-action lawsuit has been filed. I hope the school administrators responsible go to jail for this. There is absolutely no possible excuse whatsoever. I won't be surprised if it turns out that some of the school administrators have their own private collections of the racier webcam shots, and if so, I predict they WILL be going to jail, on kiddie-porn charges.
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(Alternate translation: Hold my beer, and watch this!)
If racier video exists on ANY server collecting data, someone will be held responsible. Have you heard any of the rationale for why someone thought this would be a good idea?
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Jail isn't sufficient. I'd reach back into ancestral culture and hit them with "shunning." Kinda hard to stay in a community when nobody will talk to you . . .
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Guess what, asshat... YOU DON'T.
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:-)
(Has the added advantage that They can't override it via malware.)
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You can always go low tech a put a piece of electrical tape over the lens though.
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Microphone - not a good answer. The one machine I have with a microphone has an honest-to-Edison switch for it.
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microphone, just plug a dummy unit in?
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I agree - talk about the kiddie p0rn potential and other invasive shiite. Sounds like serious lawsuits and potential BIG jail time.
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guess they did...
i know a few parents, that if they thought a pedophile was taking pictures via installed camera, there would be some fresh lime pits that very night...
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http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/01/dymond_milburn_galveston.php
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-on-dymond-milburn.html
STILL going on:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/01/dymond_milburn_galveston_polic.php
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Dymond%20Milburn
creepy times
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