Timeline for Should I let my child's school have access to my kid's personal laptop?
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| Sep 1, 2018 at 22:47 | comment | added | forest | @Berend AV is "disputed" in that it can arguably do more harm than good by greatly extending attack surface area while still being unable to detect even the most basic changes to stock malware. | |
| Aug 31, 2018 at 8:35 | comment | added | Ruadhan2300 | @Luc True enough, I can't really argue against that. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 17:43 | comment | added | Luc | @Ruadhan2300 I have also seen the technical literacy of the sysadmins typically employed in schools, but do consider which is more technically literate in infosec: the sysadmins in school or the parents? For the majority of kids, the school is probably the lesser evil when it comes to bad infosec. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 15:53 | comment | added | Berend | @peterh please point out where in the original question indoctrination or freedom is mentioned. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 15:42 | comment | added | peterh | @Berend No, the question is about the indoctrination of the children, about the so-named freedom, about the information security, about the data safety, but you can interpret and misinterpret it, as you only wish, it doesn't bother me. Our discussion now ends. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 15:40 | comment | added | Berend | @peterh the question isn't about Microsoft vs OSS (nor did I mention my own preferences). There are plenty other places on the web to discuss your personal issue with ms. | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 15:02 | comment | added | peterh | @Berend If the m$ office would be a free, open-source software, it would be acceptable. But it is not. Next time you will be obligated to use exclusively volkswagen cars, it will be indoctrinated in you from early childhood, would it be okay, hm? | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | peterh | @Berend I see it as a possible answer to the question. I like this version at most. Btw, wtf is the microsoft? Teaching kids from 6 year old to use only m$ products, how the heck it doesn't knock out the fuse by you? | |
| Aug 30, 2018 at 8:10 | history | edited | allo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 14:42 | comment | added | Ruadhan2300 | At risk of more "opinion based" responses...My experience of school IT departments has been largely unimpressive. Maintenance and monitoring rather than info-sec. There is no way I would grant admin-access to my personal device to a school IT dept in any lasting capacity. By all means provide the software and I'll install it for my kid. Hell, I'll even sit and watch while IT does it on my login. But nobody gets admin-rights over my property but me. That's the first rule of secret-keeping right there. "A secret is only secret if nobody else knows it." | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 14:05 | history | edited | allo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:57 | comment | added | allo | The thing about outlook is true, I will reword it. The discussion about AVs and possible vulnerabilities in them is rather broad and the interested reader should be able to find all arguments, while it would be off-topic to discuss the details here. Teacher vs. IT department is a detail, but I try to generalize it a bit. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:34 | comment | added | Berend | I think your answer could be improved by rewording some of your arguments, and leaving out others. For instance, the Office/LibreOffice is argument may not be opinionated, but the question isn't about which one of these should be taught. Outlook was never a good e-mail program is definitely opinionated. AV is disputed anyway (source?). Do you trust teachers: Who said teachers are the ones safeguarding private keys, the question is about the IT department. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | allo | These are some arguments for the question in the OP. It is nothing definitive, as there is no definitive answer to a "should I ..." question. If you want to nitpick, you could flag the question as "opinion based", but I think the answers do the best to be general arguments instead of just opinionated suggestions. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 13:16 | comment | added | Berend | This sounds like a personal opinion, rather than an answer to the question. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 12:22 | history | answered | allo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |