Hi. My school just started issuing devices last year, and they have this Lightspeed spyware on them. Last year I was able to remove it by booting into Linux from a flash drive and moving the files to a separate drive and then back at the end of the year. This year I have heard from sources that they have ways of detecting someone booting from Linux so I am hesitant to do that option. My only other idea is to buy an old laptop off eBay that looks like it and install Linux on it. I could probably get one for about 50€. Does anyone have any cheaper ideas?
Oh also talking to IT isn’t an option.
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Does it have built in storage? If not, could you just buy a second hand SSD, swap it and use that one and put back the original SSD when you return it?
I believe I experimented with that before. Like I said I don’t want to risk much with this device. Their network is actually solid (it was set up by kids in the networking class not just it) and they would detect it. It did just occur to me that I could remove the Wi-Fi card then remove the files with Linux so that it couldn’t phone home, but I don’t know if it would log the files missing. Do you think that would work?
It would really depend on the device. It would be possible to phone home, even analyze which files might be missing and report that. Whether that’s how it works or not would depend on the device.
I would say just do it and play dumb if they bring anything up. Or look at some really weird shit and let them spy.
I did the “look up weird shit” option last year and ended up having a nice chat with 10 different psychologists about it. I’m not doing that again but I like where your head’s at.
What the hell did you look up?
Is running Linux from a USB drive an option! You don’t have to install anything on the machine itself, and you could run the pen drive os on any machine…
