Schools + Laptops

[StealMySoda]

Okay, so basically today, we arrived to school being told that, our laptops were now going to be monitored, and we're gonna have our IT guy check what we've been doing on our laptops, to see if we've been doing anything other than what we're supposed to be doing.
I know its quite common practice for this to happen in most schools, but as it hasn't happened to me, I didn't really care. Now I do.

How exactly do they check? And can they legally do it?

Many people rushed to delete their internet histories and what not, which I thought was a bit useless as its easy to restore such things, and I doubt the IT guy would be foiled by it.

Any help is appreciated <3

[redneck]

what have u been doing online?

[TwelveEleven]

If you wanna use their network, yes they can monitor you

[Jstar1]

you get your own personal laptops?

yeah, I'm pretty sure they can find out what you've been doing during school on the internet. Doesn't your school block certain sites

[XemnasXD]

like the school laptops or any laptop thats connected to the schools network...and isn't there a way to set you laptop to not allow outside ppl to access it even if you are using their network...

[Stormprobe]

Lol. I lol'ed when i read people were running to erase there internet history.
I wonder who's been naughty or nice.

[PB_and_J]

Many people rushed to delete their internet histories and what not, which I thought was a bit useless as its easy to restore such things, and I doubt the IT guy would be foiled by it.

Most "IT's" nowadays today are people who were selling washers and dryers and futershop the week before and call themselves tech experts.

[TwelveEleven]

Many people rushed to delete their internet histories and what not, which I thought was a bit useless as its easy to restore such things, and I doubt the IT guy would be foiled by it.

Most "IT's" nowadays today are people who were selling washers and dryers and futershop the week before and call themselves tech experts.

sadly enough that's true..

For example the ones that designed my schools website, they just made a template for an existing piece of code, that I could have done way better.. And I'm not even an IT specialist :\

Also, they try to do a lot at our school, against things, but they do more harm than good. (They had to block hotmail, because they managed to mess up the login system (making you unable to logout, letting others in your account..))

Yeah it's that bad..

[Sharp324]

Okay, so basically today, we arrived to school being told that, our laptops were now going to be monitored, and we're gonna have our IT guy check what we've been doing on our laptops, to see if we've been doing anything other than what we're supposed to be doing.
I know its quite common practice for this to happen in most schools, but as it hasn't happened to me, I didn't really care. Now I do.

How exactly do they check? And can they legally do it?

Many people rushed to delete their internet histories and what not, which I thought was a bit useless as its easy to restore such things, and I doubt the IT guy would be foiled by it.

Any help is appreciated <3

Here in the US they do it they see what you see on your monitor. Its legal cause they make you sign a paper to use it and on that gives them the power.

[PB_and_J]

Many people rushed to delete their internet histories and what not, which I thought was a bit useless as its easy to restore such things, and I doubt the IT guy would be foiled by it.

Most "IT's" nowadays today are people who were selling washers and dryers and futershop the week before and call themselves tech experts.

sadly enough that's true..

For example the ones that designed my schools website, they just made a template for an existing piece of code, that I could have done way better.. And I'm not even an IT specialist :\

Also, they try to do a lot at our school, against things, but they do more harm than good. (They had to block hotmail, because they managed to mess up the login system (making you unable to logout, letting others in your account..))

Yeah it's that bad..

I saw a vid on youtube where someone put one faulty stick of ram in a computer, sent it to 10 "IT departments" and 9 of the responses was along the lines of "You need a new computer" or "Your cpu is fried, get a new one"

Sorry, going off topic....

[dom]

I'd download a lot of animal, old, and midget porn.

It's legal, and at worst he'll get sick and tired of visiting websites with two old guys giving eachother head and he'll eventually stop checking on your PC.

[StealMySoda]

We all have our own personal laptops (IE from home), so it has non of the schools software on. I have my zone alarm firewall set to stealth mode, which is annoying cause I need to have ports open to use file sharing at home, but it just means I'll have to change it every so often.

So its only legal...if we sign a letter agreeing to it?

[Silkroad]

We all have our own personal laptops (IE from home), so it has non of the schools software on. I have my zone alarm firewall set to stealth mode, which is annoying cause I need to have ports open to use file sharing at home, but it just means I'll have to change it every so often.

So its only legal...if we sign a letter agreeing to it?

nope ... as long as you are conected to the network they can monitor you

[StealMySoda]

We all have our own personal laptops (IE from home), so it has non of the schools software on. I have my zone alarm firewall set to stealth mode, which is annoying cause I need to have ports open to use file sharing at home, but it just means I'll have to change it every so often.

So its only legal...if we sign a letter agreeing to it?

nope ... as long as you are conected to the network they can monitor you

Only what sites your accessing though, nothing to do with what programs your running right?

[Silkroad]

We all have our own personal laptops (IE from home), so it has non of the schools software on. I have my zone alarm firewall set to stealth mode, which is annoying cause I need to have ports open to use file sharing at home, but it just means I'll have to change it every so often.

So its only legal...if we sign a letter agreeing to it?

nope ... as long as you are conected to the network they can monitor you

Only what sites your accessing though, nothing to do with what programs your running right?

well if its a program that conects to the internet, then yes they can monitor it