School spied on students through webcam.
  • TheAtheistGod
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    This is so messed up. It's not even funny. Take a look (sorry for the ad at the beginning).

    http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/school-allegedly-spied-via-web-cams-19196035


    And....let it out!!
  • normlnorml
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    I laughed when the reporter asked if the pics had "gone viral." As if some mundane pictures of average kids hold any value on the mainstream internet...
    Anyway, yes, it's completely outrageous that the staff of that high school have abused a safety function, and this incident only serves to further erode my respect, and probably a lot of people's respect, for authority. And to think, they had the nerve to confront him about a picture of pills! "Hey, I've been taking pictures of you illegally, and I've noticed that you're holding some pills in some of the pictures! You're not taking illegal pills, are you??" It's authorities like these that are going to make the downtrodden start a revolution.
    One thing is for certain: The more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
    -Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • PoemOf4Letters
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    If this happened to me, I think I wold just stop showing up to school. Really, it's sick.
  • MATTMATT
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    Huh, what the hell did they accomplish with this?
  • PoemOf4Letters
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    They could tell when a laptop was stolen I guess........ Honestly it sounds a tad weak to me.
  • Sourdough
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    The purpose was that, if the computer was stolen, they could take a picture and find out where it is, or who has it. Of course, someone could have easily put tape over the camera, or they would have gotten a picture of a nondescript room that tells them nothing about it's location.

    There are so many things wrong with this situation. What if the kids had been naked when they used this software? It creeps me out so damn much.
  • Inferno
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    Posted By: PoemOf4LettersWhat if the kids had been naked when they used this software?


    The kids can be naked in school? WTF! They'd have sent the vids to me! :D
  • Sourdough
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    Posted By: Inferno
    Posted By: PoemOf4LettersWhat if the kids had been naked when they used this software?


    The kids can be naked in school? WTF!They'd have sent the vids to me! :D

    No, but at home in their bedroom...
  • breezyspreezy
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    MASS PARANOIA! YAY!
  • PoemOf4Letters
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    Posted By: Inferno
    Posted By: PoemOf4LettersWhat if the kids had been naked when they used this software?


    The kids can be naked in school? WTF!They'd have sent the vids to me! :D


    What? I never said that!
  • F i L
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    Yeah i saw this a little while back. Kinda disturbing really. It's odd cause in the video the principle is talking about how he messes with the kids that are goofing off and they dart out'f view (they understand someone is watching them). Sooo.... i was always confused about weather the parents of the kids knew and didn't have a problem with it. or... yeah idk.

    and the worried about it being stolen thing is BS, if they where worried about that they would have added a LoJack not a Web Cam.
  • TheAtheistGod
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    Posted By: F i LYeah i saw this a little while back. Kinda disturbing really. It's odd cause in the video the principle is talking about how he messes with the kids that are goofing off and they dart out'f view (they understand someone is watching them). Sooo.... i was always confused about weather the parents of the kids knew and didn't have a problem with it. or... yeah idk.

    and the worried about it being stolen thing is BS, if they where worried about that they would have added a LoJack not a Web Cam.
    I concur:TheAtheistGod


    exactly. If they were that concered about stolen laptops, they would put a GPS in that shit or something....
  • MATTMATT
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    Yeah, that is a pretty stupid way to keep track of a computer. Why not just have a signout sheet and those barcode detector things at your library/computer lab doors?
  • Inferno
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    Because guys, then you wouldn't be able to see naked school girls! So really, 2 flies with one strike!
  • F i L
    Posts: 1,541Citizen
    Just woundering, is "2 flied with one strike" a common term where you're from? or is it just your own spin off "two birds with one stone"?
  • Inferno
    Posts: 6,778Citizen
    In the German world it's flies. It's because the brothers Grimm made this tale "Das Tapfere Schneiderlei/The Valliant Little Tailor. He squats 7 flies, so we talk about flies too. (At least I think that's how it originated...)
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