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School Spyware (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi. My school just started issuing devices last year, and they have this Lightspeed spyware on them. Last year I was able to remove it by booting into Linux from a flash drive and moving the files to a separate drive and then back at the end of the year. This year I have heard from sources that they have ways of detecting someone booting from Linux so I am hesitant to do that option. My only other idea is to buy an old laptop off eBay that looks like it and install Linux on it. I could probably get one for about 50€. Does anyone have any cheaper ideas?

Oh also talking to IT isn’t an option.

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[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Something tells me your intentions aren't innocent(you want to be able to act maliciously at school or on the school network), or you have an overinflated sense of ego, the head of IT likely didn't give two shits about explaining anything to some brat. You're going to have to face some harsh realities pretty soon. Expecting digital privacy on a school issued device on the school network is asinine thinking.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanted to do goofy stuff last year like the 4 line script that only uses tons of resources, but I have no intention to be malicious in any way. They now have a whitelist instead of a blacklist for website blocking, meaning many educational sites are blocked by accident. My teacher’s website was blocked for most of last year. We are required to use MS Office even though it takes 3-4 times as long as LibreOffice to load. I don’t want to be hackerman or to play csgo in class, I just want basic functionality on the computer I have to use.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Well your easiest option would be to buy the another laptop.

Or you could just use a different hard drive and install Linux. (and switch back the old drive once you need to give it back)

But if the bios is password locked I don't know what they might block in there

[–] thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this a school owned device? Goofy 4 line script that uses tons of resources, so that script that unnecessarily and intentionally taxes the laptops hardware, purely innocent right? Any chance why they might not want you to do that?

That's pretty standard across any respectable industry. You're given suitable alternatives, if everyone could use whatever applications they wanted then it would be a nightmare.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It unnecessarily taxes the cpu. CPUs don’t die except for cracked dies and improper thermal solutions. Do you think that was really going to do anything to it? Also it isn’t like I can’t do that already, so all their shit does is make it harder to do legitimate work.