And still more on the Lower Merion school district webcam debacle

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

The folks at Freedom-to-Tinker have been studying the software
used to remotely control those laptops:

        School's Laptop Spying Software Exploitable from Anywhere
        http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/schools-laptop-spying-software-exploitable-anywhere

Among other things, the crypto key is hardcoded, so as the comment on
Boing Boing that pointed to this noted, once you've gotten into one,
you've gotten into all of them.

---Rsk
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