Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense

Post by kurthr » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 12:37 AM UTC

commoner wrote: post #21

ElViajero wrote: post #3

> “If authority figures for youth say constant surveillance is OK, what happens when a romantic partner wants access to every message on their phone? Or an employer wants your social media password? Invasive monitoring isn’t acceptable, no matter who tries to do it, and personal privacy matters.” I think that it is even worse than that. In a decade or two, we are going to learn the many cases of sexual abuse that thi…

Certainly already happening: > Over the next 15 days, the school district captured at least 210 webcam photos and 218 screenshots. They included photos inside his home of Robbins sleeping and of him partially undressed, as well as photos of his father. The district also snapped images of Robbins' instant messages and video chats with his friends, and sent them to its servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._…

Post by alt228562 » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 12:55 AM UTC

peterburkimsher wrote: post #23

prepend wrote: post #10

My schools tried to require school owned apple equipment that both restricted actions (couldn’t message with parents or email) and monitored all activity, even when used from home. I forced my own equipment and they tried to install and reinstall various spyware throughout the year. It seems like rather than proposing a basic system of assignments and material and grades, they are trying to treat as a wholly owned ec…

I was the kid in school who told people about rebooting to single-user mode and creating hidden root user accounts :-D Some people got in trouble for having learned about it and misusing it though >_<

Post by spodek » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 1:06 AM UTC

motohagiography wrote: post #16

Spying on kids outrageous. The sad state of things is that the most valuable tool kids could learn now is that it's not strangers but authorities who are predatory and self interested, and you need to learn how to manage authorities and rules, which means, how do you extract value from them without being pulled in and subordinated to or hustled by them. Respect does not mean obedience, it means maintaining clear boun…

Post by easton » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 1:17 AM UTC

chasil wrote: post #24

prepend wrote: post #10

My schools tried to require school owned apple equipment that both restricted actions (couldn’t message with parents or email) and monitored all activity, even when used from home. I forced my own equipment and they tried to install and reinstall various spyware throughout the year. It seems like rather than proposing a basic system of assignments and material and grades, they are trying to treat as a wholly owned ec…

Surprising that schools are requiring additional certs to be added a a device for internet access. This enables "keybridging" mitm attacks on any TLS connection that trusts the cert. Best load a 3rd-party browser and install it locally, rather than compromise the whole device. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/01/08/the-turktrust-ss...

Post by bnj » Mon, Jun 28, 2021, 1:26 AM UTC

scrose wrote: post #20

What makes this even scarier is the amount of technological incompetence the people have who are monitoring these things. As far as I know, there’s no legal equivalent to HIPAA(which itself only scratches the surface of things) for ensuring the data and logs of these invasive systems stays under tight supervision. Now add in the fact that the people monitoring these systems may have an infinite amount of their own se…