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School Spyware (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. My school just started issuing devices last year, and they have this Lightspeed spyware on them. Last year I was able to remove it by booting into Linux from a flash drive and moving the files to a separate drive and then back at the end of the year. This year I have heard from sources that they have ways of detecting someone booting from Linux so I am hesitant to do that option. My only other idea is to buy an old laptop off eBay that looks like it and install Linux on it. I could probably get one for about 50€. Does anyone have any cheaper ideas?

Oh also talking to IT isn’t an option.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Exactly. There could not be true / full ownership of hardware.
And yet that's fine for me.

Now about that:

Today you can make sure the source code is truly what you intend, by running Linux on PC and GrapheneOS on Android. You might not have the ability to audit those, but others (like me) do, and are doing so.

Even in that case you can never be sure what a compiler did with the code. You can say: go look at the code of that compiler. But then how can I be sure it's code had been compiled without malicious modifications. And so on.

[–] MajorHavoc 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can compile your compiler from source.

Edit: Here's how: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Edit 2: I know you can hear the rabbit hole calling to you. Join us. Follow the rabbit trail.

But seriously, it's cool, you're curious about it, and the pay from the jobs it leads to tends to be pretty great.