School laptop spy software 'exploitable from anywhere'

Remember the school laptops set up to allow staff to spy on the kids at home? It turns out that the spy software used, Absolute Manage, has hard-coded crypto keys. This means that if you hack one client, you've hacked them all. [Freedom to Tinker]

Read more 

show full bio

Rob Beschizza

Follow me on Twitter.

Where not otherwise specified, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.