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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Because they want to play games at school.

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Actually I can install things on it and only installed a better browser and office suite. I would simply prefer not to be spied on at school, and I don’t think that that is unreasonable.

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Just don’t use school property for things you want to be private. It works the exact same way with anything owned by any organization you may work for in the future.

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I want my schoolwork to be private. I don’t want a proprietary network enabled keylogger on my computer even though I only use it for schoolwork. I am legally required to go to my school, I am legally required to use their computer, I am legally required to give up my privacy. I don’t understand why people think privacy isn’t a reasonable expectation at school. I am okay with the school having my information but they use proprietary keyloggers and network monitoring tools that can do whatever the fuck they want with it.

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Yeah this is exactly the way it works in the workplace.

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Don’t have any expectation of privacy on a device you do not own, this applies with school & work-supplied devices.

They own the device, they set the terms.

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A reasonable request, but I doubt the school’s going to back down from the position of “we’re allowed to monitor the hardware we own”.

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Honestly man use the device to submit assignments, and get yourself another laptop for everything else.

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