Is your school issued laptop secure?
Gotta love secondary school administration.. often they think they’re top of the world. Heres a case that doesn’t have a chance of making it to the supreme court. Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (link to Boing-Boing article)
Essentially this brings the key fact people forget often back to light: If you did not install the operating system from ground up, the box ain’t secure.
Though it is very sad that someone in the administration thought they could get away with this. School districts shouldn’t police kids outside of school — thats a parents job. This is not a new issue in the news though, there are many other examples of schools overstepping their bounds and trying to police kids for things they do on Facebook outside of school. Using the argument that the school owns the laptops and thus can monitor what is done on them should be null and voided too. I can’t put a keylogger on my machine, lend it to a neighbor, and sue them for viewing child porn sites with evidence from the keylogger.
I don’t care what the government says – if they do it outside of school, than it isn’t the schools business, even if it will distract kids the next day in class.
