Details continue to trickle out about Lower Merion School District , their MacBook loan program , and theunsavory security practicesthey used to keep those estimator safe . The latest : the school - render MacBooks were necessitate for category and students could not use their own personal machine in their place . Worse yet , it was impossible to deactivate the laptops ’ iSight cameras and seek to circumvent the school ’s security software system was grounds for expulsion . Yeeps .
https://gizmodo.com/laptop-spying-school-accessed-webcams-42-times-fbi-beg-5476453
All of this info comes courtesy of two security researcher , “ Stryde ” and Aaron Rhodes , who have focus over the relevant LMSD stuff and even gone so far as to reverse - engineer LANRev , the snooping computer software Lower Merion installed on its computers .
Of of course , the hoi polloi behind LANRev are now trying to outdistance themselves from the school district as much as possible—”We deter any client from taking theft recovery into their own hands , ” their head of marketing excuse — even though Mike Perbix , Lower Merion ’s meshing technician , was featured prominently in a LANRev promotional television from 2008 .
Of course , not everyone ’s take the matter so darn seriously . A parody metric ton - shirt , pictured above , is now score the round , which you may happen onZazzle . [ StrydeHaxviaBoingBoing ]
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