Re: big brother at school

[chris () blask org]

--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

> Why are these filthy pedophiles still breathing free air?

I wouldn't doubt for a second that the "feature" was used by some creepy employee (we all remember that math teacher 
who would openly leer down girl's tops, right?).  What I find most mind-boggling about this whole story, though, is the 
idea that not a single person involved in the planning, design, approval or implementation of the system thought of 
this before hand.

A lot of the time I excuse the security-idiocy of people simply because they don't think about this stuff for a living. 
 No big surprise that they miss the point.  But this kind of thing is (should damn well be) top-of-mind to teachers in 
everything they do.  WTF are you thinking setting yourself up by sending children home with cameras to put in their 
bedrooms (often facing their beds, based on my own kids' desks) without locking them down like Fort Knox?  If you *are* 
for some reason motivated to install the capability to turn on the damn cameras, WTF are you thinking by *not* 
insisting on a forensically-secure method of turning on those cameras that would make nuclear weapon authorization look 
sloppy?

These *ssh*les should go to jail for sheer incompetence. (then they should be beaten daily, but don't get me started on 
that).

-chris


      
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