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A controversial remote administration program that a Pennsylvania school district installed on student-issued laptops contains a security hole that put the students at risk of being spied on by people outside the school, according to a security firm that examined the software. The LANrev program contains a vulnerability that would allow someone using the same network as one of the students to install malware on the laptop that could remotely control the computer. An intruder would be able to steal data from the computer or control the laptop webcam to snap surreptitious pictures. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Leviathan Security Group, who began examining the program after customers who saw media coverage of the Pennsylvania case expressed concern that the program might be exposing their employee computers to intrusion from outsiders. The same software is used by many businesses to monitor and maintain their employee laptops.

The Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania is embroiled in a lawsuit and FBI criminal investigation over use of the LANrev software. The cases involve allegations that administrators spied on students through the software installed on 2,300 school-issued Macbooks. Read on…

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Wet Wednesday *37

Mar 24th

Posted by milkboys in Photos

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Photo by & with Naglis Bierancas

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Periodical Political Post *46

Feb 26th

Posted by milkboys in Mixed

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Australian Senate rejects gay marriage bill even ‘tho 60% of Aussies support it
New Bill will allow British schools to teach that homosexuality is wrong
France first country to delist Transgenderism as a mental illness
Lithuanian law bans promotion of gay marriage & sexual relations between minors
US congress renews PATRIOT Act, keeps abandoning civil rights
US fesses up to potentially illegal spying, including peace groups and Planned Parenthood
Texas stores blood samples of new born babies for massive DNA database
Citibank closes bank account of gay social network, says content is “objectionable”
Iceland’s new free speech laws for media after Swedish model pass first discussion
US copyright lobby says using open source software makes you a pirate

After threatening to end its adoption and homeless services programs in Washington D.C. if the City Council approved gay marriage there, the catholic church’s charities unit is indeed dismantling its foster care program because they fear the city might somehow "force" the church to officiate gay unions and recognize same-sex partners of employees. However, maybe this has turned out for the best. The children, their families, and even the program’s semployees have found a new home — at the National Center for Children and Families, which is not affiliated with any religious institution. Which means these children will still have the services they very much need, without the intervention of a church that abandoned them to uphold discrimination and seeing how church institutions have sexually & physically abused thousands of kids it might be for the better.