In light of the revelation that a Joplin School tech employee, Ronny Justin Myers, who has pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and will be sentenced next week in U. S. District Court in Springfield, had pornographic photos of 10 Joplin High School students on his laptop, I thought this video from today's Katie Couric show might be timely.
In the video, an expert details just how easy it is for a hacker to take control of a computer's webcam and to be able to take photos, videos, and audio at someone's home, and then he reveals what can be done to protect yourself against that kind of invasion of privacy.
How about using the skool provided komputrs to infect the smart phone with a virus that takes the pictures and makes them available to the perverts? Even though this wasn't in the plan the board approved. Because if the pervert was in charge of the komputrs the administrators might be clueless.
ReplyDeleteNo need to hack into the computer if you have administrative rights, as this guy did. See the evidently not notorious enough Pennsylvania Lower Merion School District
ReplyDeleteIf the establishment press had done their job and properly publicized this atrocity, the "little tards" here would have known to cover the webcam lens, assuming that isn't against the school's rules (Lower Merion got really upset at stuff like this, wouldn't even let you use your own computer at school).
But like this R-VIII case, the powers that be don't think this is stuff we need to know, it wouldn't do to remind people just how much surveillance this allows (even if the webcam lens is covered, the school can still find out all sorts of things from activity logs on the computers).