My school rolled out a bunch of “security” (surveillance) measures basically because of me. Got a love letter email type thing from the school for using vpns and sailing the high seas (thank god my opsec was good enough or else my hamster would have been busted for all of the orders she made.). Next thing I know they’ve blocked most vpn ports and to connect to the network you are forced to install some invasive ass software. Not that it stopped me(or my hamster).
I love personally committing acts of online piracy, and bragging about my actions (that are my own) online.
Whoa there buddy that’s (i l l e g a l). As long as you say that your hamster did it you can’t get in trouble. Just like how you can’t charge a husband and wife with the same crime and if you ask a cop if they’re a cop they have to tell you they’re a cop.
Remember that us courts are technically admiralty courts which means that they can only convict those who have sworn allegiance to active service of the federal government. If you declare yourself a sovereign citizen of the united states of America (uncapitalized, very important!) they have to prove your allegiance which they can't as Obama had the records destroyed to hide his Muslim birth certificate.
Look it up, it's all in the constitution and the 2nd amendment.
If it's the software I'm thinking of, to efficiently protect her privacy she'll need to:
- Put it into a VM
- Record herself on webcam doing innocuous stuff beforehand and then play back the feed in a loop to make the software believe its filming (doable with V4L stuff on Linux for example)
- Do something similar with her microphone
If the aim is simply to cheat with her having no problem being filmed and recorded though, then yeah, a VM should be enough. However, those software also have (shitty) countermeasures against VMs; you need to specifically modify the VM so that the usual virtual devices have different signatures and so on (not that hard to do, there are howtos online).
granted this isn't possible for everyone, but my way around this stuff is to run it on my laptop (which also has the only webcam I own) which is set up right below my main PC screen. Type answers and do calculations on the laptop, CTRL+F an offline copy of the textbook and/or use wolfram alpha on the real computer.
LPT: if you’re underage just get naked and beat your meat in front of your webcam so your school has to stop using the spyware because of child porn laws
Yeah honestly I think you're well within your rights to put your foot down and refuse to install software on anything that you own.
go over to /r/privacy on reddit; check out their wiki. it'll be interesting if they yell at you for installing an anti-spying version of chrome and what their reasons would be
you might have to get more technical than I'm able to help with. something about containers or dual-booting. You might just have to get another computer
- Install https://ungoogled-software.github.io
- Install https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
- Browse and use the Chrome web store as normal, or install CRX files directly.
No fucking way. I'm shocked. I'm very sorry young people need to deal with this.
My guess is it starts with students (they have way less power) and then it moves up to adults.
How we these extensions running outside of chrome? They should be shutdown when you're not using chrome. That way you can just use Firefox or something else when your not doing school work.
Good call. Basically browsers are meant to be sandboxes. If some extension is sneaking out of that sandbox, it should be possible to put it back in its place.
Can't you just not use the browser then? Install chrome and the extension but turn of chrome and use something else when your out of class?
I mean I'd probably still use a VM because I don't want the extension accessing my processes ever. But it can't be 24/7 unless the browser is on 24/7.
Yeah, don't put that shit on your own computer. Same goes if you're an employee. Don't offer your personal phone or computer to run the employers software.
This sounds similar to my friends university. Luckily for them the boomers were so incompetent at actually rolling out the spyware that they gave up and just switched to safe exam browser lol
Luckily I use BSD so it probably won’t even work, if they ever have me do the same.
