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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Hate to break it to you, but jobs are doing this as well. I am a teacher, and we just got GoGuardian for students, but it has been watching / blocking things for teachers since I started a couple years ago. If you have a work-issued device, your work will most likely monitor it, and same goes with school-issued devices. I get that you want to hack it and do what you want, but that could get you fired some day.
Among other ways it might make you better off, a tendency to boot linux on school-issued devices could also very much help get you hired some day. Although perhaps not in the education system. Seeing a teacher discourage it is even more depressing than seeing a student fear he'll be punished for it. So long as you're not breaking any laws, it seems like a fine idea.
In the US, basically anything you are not authorized to do on someone else's computer is illegal and can be prosecuted under the CFAA.
I point this out only to highlight that it's a terrible law that needs to be changed, I'm not disagreeing with anything that your said.
I don’t discourage it so much as I’m giving this person a warning. Also, do you know why they put up those systems? To protect their devices, and to block kids from things they legally should not be on. I’ve seen so many kids (and adults) download viruses, spyware, adware, etc on their computer just because they wanted a “cool” mouse pointer, wallpaper, or other feature. Not that I think op will do something stupid like this, but this is what they’re protecting their computers from.
I like this take. I got into a programming class after telling the teacher about a program I had previously gotten an in school suspension for writing. It recursively started itself and used a ton of resources. It was just goofy and the it dept. called it a virus.