Wipe the machine, install fresh and clean Linux, and then password lock the BIOS.
On 31 May 2015 03:24:45 GMT+01:00, Gadit Bielman <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi. > >I'm trying to help (probably badly, but..) a friend deal with parents >that >they expect are spying on them. >I know that in general, it's impossible to secure a computer that you >can't >trust and don't necessarily have administrator privileges to. > >But their parents are not exactly the NSA -- any spying that's >happening is >almost definitely some sort of product, plus basic things like maybe >looking through their history. (I don't know much about they're >situation >-- maybe they know more, so >well-if-you-know-they-do-this-then-you-could-do-this type advice would >still be helpful.) > >Would antivirus be able to detect spy-on-your-kids products? Would they >be >able to scan their computer with like Immunet or something, even if >they >didn't have administrator privileges? > >Tor would probably help -- unless the monitoring was looking at the RAM >or >something for website names, which would be way overkill on a >commercial >product, no? Or (more likely) if it was taking screenshots at regular >intervals, which would also break running a VM or something. (Is there >any >way to detect taking screenshots?) > >I know probably the best thing would be running TAILS as a LiveCD -- >the >problem with that is that it's REALLY obvious over-the-shoulder. > > >Um, thoughts about any of those? >Any other things about parents as a threat model in general? > >I know this is pretty far from what is usually discussed on here, but >I'm >really interested in what you think/it would potentially help a lot of >people. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
