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What future will we as a society choose? A future based on free software, or one where high school students have to cover their webcams with tape? | What future will we as a society choose? A future based on free software, or one where high school students have to cover their webcams with tape? | ||
| − | If you're with us, here's the plan | + | If you're with us, here's the plan: Create a listing of all school systems that provide every student with a laptop that includes: |
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| + | # OS the laptops run | ||
| + | # Any security or monitoring software that's included | ||
| + | # Whether students are prohibited from using their own computers running free software | ||
| + | # A list of any additionally nasty characteristics on the provided laptops (beyond simply including proprietary software) like locked out features or remote monitoring software. | ||
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| + | Example: | ||
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| + | ===Lower Marion School District=== | ||
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| + | # Mac OS X | ||
| + | # LANRev | ||
| + | # Students prohibited from using any other computer, or installing their own software on provided computers. | ||
| + | # Administrators can take screenshots, take photos from webcam, browse files. Administrators allegedly used this information in infamously suspect ways. | ||
Revision as of 12:01, 11 March 2010
What future will we as a society choose? A future based on free software, or one where high school students have to cover their webcams with tape?
If you're with us, here's the plan: Create a listing of all school systems that provide every student with a laptop that includes:
- OS the laptops run
- Any security or monitoring software that's included
- Whether students are prohibited from using their own computers running free software
- A list of any additionally nasty characteristics on the provided laptops (beyond simply including proprietary software) like locked out features or remote monitoring software.
Example:
Lower Marion School District
- Mac OS X
- LANRev
- Students prohibited from using any other computer, or installing their own software on provided computers.
- Administrators can take screenshots, take photos from webcam, browse files. Administrators allegedly used this information in infamously suspect ways.
