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School issued laptops used to spy on students as they undressed.
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--- Quote from: ilk3000 on February 19, 2010, 03:59:55 PM ---http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100219/ap_on_re_us/us_laptops_spying_on_students
Apparently, it was for helping retrieval if a laptop was lost or stolen. Though the district decided not to tell anyone about this and the webcam was activated on a laptop that wasn't reported missing.
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I CAN SEE THE KEYBOARD! THE LAPTOP MUST BE CLOSED AT THE MOMENT!
It's called a GPS tracker... This is BS.
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Lol damn, didn't take that into account. Laptops are usually closed and even if. It's pretty unlikely to spot the laptop just with the webcam, if you see a random landscape around. xd
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I remember something similar being used to recover stolen goods before. The point is not to find WHERE the laptop is, it is to find out WHO has it. You remotely activate the camera and try to get a picture of the user.
From a quick Google search, I found a story similar to the one I was talking about: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/mac-thief-caught-on-webcam/2008/05/12/1210444306538.html
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This is only useful if the laptop is stolen AND you want to press charges. Damn useless if the unit is "lost", just as useless if it's stolen but you're not going to press charges.
However unlike your link, that person logged into their own personal laptop. Wheras the district distributed the laptops pretty much for "personal" use. Quite a difference there.
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