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Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o... by jstarfish on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:51PM (#16609006)
Its issued for the purpose of doing schoolwork. What do you care if some Russian hackers gets their hands on your child's science fair project?

That said, do put electrical tape over the webcam and microphone.

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Re:Schools Are Spending Millions on High-Tech Surveillance o... by tzs on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:21AM (#16610557)
> That said, do put electrical tape over the webcam and microphone

For the camera, I can see it (pun intended) as electrical tape is usually opaque to visible light. But the microphone? All electrical tape should do over the microphone is lower the input level slightly.

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