ANOTHER SPYCAM UPDATE (Good stuff):

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100423_Judge_to_rule_in_Lower_Merion_Web-cam_case.html




Administrator agrees to surrender computer in Web cam case
By John P. Martin

INQURER STAFF WRITER

The Lower Merion School District administrator who had the ability to activate the Web cams on students' laptops agreed Friday to let investigators inspect her personal computer to see if she used the remote tracking program at home, according to an attorney in the case.

The administrator, information systems coordinator Carol Cafiero, has also agreed to sit for a second deposition, attorney Mark Haltzman said. Cafiero had previously refused to answer lawyers' questions about her role in the now-infamous tracking program.

Haltzman declined to discuss the specifics of the agreement or say when Cafiero would surrender her computer or to whom. Cafiero's attorney, Charles Mandracchia, did not immediately respond to calls and e-mails seeking comment.

But the agreement, reached after a teleconference Friday with a federal judge, clears one roadblock in resolving the dispute between the school district and Haltzman's client, Blake Robbins, the Harriton High School sophomore who contends in a lawsuit that the district used the Web cams on school-issued computers to spy on students and violated his civil rights.

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I bet she has some neat stuff on that Hard Drive that we'll never see, but the authorities will...and they're entitled to, unlike her intrusiveness.

"I love it".

HA...Karma's a bitch, ain't it lady...

to hand over her puter after this long and anyone expects to find something incriminating on it???

She's a computer administrator, she will know how to get rid of the evidence.

All of the sudden she's so willing to cooperate? Yah, she finally made sure that any evidence that they could retrieve is long gone...

Please...

a good team of IT forensics experts will be able to tell.A recent scrubbing could set her up for obstruction of justice/destruction of evidence type charges.

"My computer was running slow I reinstalled the OS" could be both truthful and a means of destroying evidence. Unless, there was an order not to use the machine until a ruling was made on whether or not she had to surrender it I don't think they can hit her with any charge. It may sound fishy but it is not illegal.

The school's computer should have logs of anyone accessing the system from the net. Maybe some connections that don't fit a regular pattern would be useful?

subpoenaed can really hurt you in civil court. Several people tried that to their detriment with RIAA suits. Much would depend on the dates. It is much easier not to keep such records or auto wipe them so accusations of sanitizing can not get any legal traction. It is quite possible to scrub data and leave little to no trace, but it requires a level of skill beyond that found in many school IT departments.

A competent admin can not only get rid of stuff so it can't be found but can cover their tracks so there is no clue stuff was removed. Easy enough to do with a certain level knowledge.

I'm afraid the time lag has been too long to let her get away with all sorts of stuff.

(facepalm)