Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveillance tech

Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @12:33PM (#25508828)

You can see a lot just with tcpdump on your router: either buy one supported by openwrt or buy a model with shell access available out of the box.

You can also use tcpdump to save a pcap file that can then be analyzed with wireshark.

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Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by bane on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:42PM (#25510995)

If all you need are connection info, pump the pcap through zeek and you'll get a nice set of rich tab delimited log files you can analyze.

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Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday December 25, 2020 @01:21PM (#25538053)

Yeah, zeek is a great tool. It took me a while to recognize it, though, the last time I used it, it was still called “bro”.

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Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by fingerlocks on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:14PM (#25509959)

Could you suggest a small home router? I've been trying to find an 5Ghz / 802.11ax Wifi router with such features.

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Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill... by fiddlerwoaroof on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @05:30PM (#25512145)

I’m not sure, you basically have to do the homework for consumer hardware: one issue you’ll run into is that consumer routers often depend on binary blobs and propriety drivers for WiFi functionality like MIMO. Netgear’s firmwares are based on OpenWRT, though, and nearly every netgear device I’ve owned has had some way to get shell access (my current device is a netgear Orbi (RBR40)). It has shell access and tcpdump is included in the base image.

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