wow, totally and completely unlawful and unethical. What if that school principal or school official turned on the webcam while the minor child was undressing. Among a zillion other ways of this being wrong, wholey moley this is so wrong!
I hope the officials in that school disctrict fry for this.... What did they think they were doing? Creating the next "jenny cam"???? Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:36 PM To: funsec Subject: Re: [funsec] big brother at school Date sent: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:28:13 -0600 From: RandallM <[email protected]> > http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html and http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/18/24789.htm "A federal class action claims a suburban school district has been spying on students and families through the "indiscriminant use of and ability to remotely activate the webcams incorporated into each laptop issued to students," without the knowledge or consent of students or parents. The named plaintiffs say they learned that Big Brother was in their home when an assistant principal told their son that the school district knew he `was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor plaintiff's personal laptop issued by the school district.'" Always possible that the allegations are wrong or overstated, but, on the face of it, sounds like this school district could be in very serious trouble ... (Cue comments about protecting children, and being willing to give up personal freedoms for a worthy cause, etc ... ) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] What you ... call a poor signal-to-noise ratio is the 'glue' that holds a community together, that lets us recognize one another as people rather than roles. - Anton Aylward victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
