The bad thing here is that these laptops were supposedly "private property" of each student and there family even if on a usage basis. These kids had them in there room's on a large basis I would imagine. This opens up all kinds of nasty things, the more people who had direct access the uglier it gets. What if and I'm not even saying this did or did not happen, but if I found out someone was able to on demand watch my teenager in there private bed room not to mention anywhere the laptop was I would be very upset. I mean someone could be watching your kids getting dressed or in other situations unclothed in there own "safe" bedroom. Thats just messed up besides the fact that no one knew this was even possible, on the family basis, nor did they assent to it at all.

Wow these stories are getting bigger and bigger as days past... But one good thing is the kid can't be convicted of the crime with those pictures as they were obtained illegally... Don't you think these people learn form others mistake??? (Both the kids and people spying...)

Note: The articles title is misleading 😃 (i thought they were getting files off their computer [:(])

The kid was not commiting a crime. He was eating candy which they thought was '[censored]s'. Like "Mike and Ike" candy looks like [censored]s to begin with.

The biggest thing with this though is that if there is any nudity that shows up in any of the pics, this becomes a child porn case and things will really explode.

I thoght that this was a different story...

Yeah infinity that's exactly what I was talking about. With the number of people who had access to all of these laptops these people would own half the state if not the whole thing if any information pointed at that possibility being a truth. Not that they won't anyway with the number of people that are going to end up involved in this after the original case is settled.

I agree with "rapid1" in that as the investigation goes on that the violation in privacy will go a lot deeper. I'm going to assume that the laptops create a log of when the cameras were activated, and if so all students should be given info on how to access that log to see if their camera was activated. I hate to be a untrusting soul of human nature, but I'll bet money that some of the people that have access to these camera, HAVE been spying and peeping tom on these kids for reasons other than lost or stolen laptops. Its disgusting. I think that all the computers of anyone and everyone that were used to access this spying software. Should be scanned and I put money on the fact that some perverted dumbass will have saved screen shots and videos of what will be somebody's nightmare. Think about it how would you like it if you found out that video of your son or daughter or youself getting dressed or undressed or whatever was out there because of this technology.

According to one site (http://strydehax.blogspot.com), one of the features of the software is it does NOT log what it's doing on the laptop being monitored. No only that, but it deletes the image files it captures after sending them back to home base. It's possible some of those files could be recovered even though they've been deleted, but it's going to require more than a casual inspection plus a little luck. It appears likely that the only way to know what was actually done is to obtain the logs from the IT servers--which of course are maintained by the very people in the best position to record images without authorization. The school system has been ordered by the judge not to delete any such logs, but that order came days after the lawsuit so if somebody was doing something illicit and those logs still exist, then that somebody is an idiot on top of everything else.

Yeah but racedad68 there fall down is going to be the servers. Especially in a server such as these being county servers which while maybe not junk are also not top of the line. The further you get away from this years technology the easier in many cases at least in the 2000' to recover a goo bit if not all data. Thats why they tell you to destroy a HD if you throw it away, and the older that drive is to a certain amount means more will be retained. I would not put it past some individual from the IT team when a situation like this is going on, or coming to light in this fashion to know or maybe have even backed up the information.