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.

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      They didn’t notice it missing last year, but they have made changes. It used to not auto install its extension on librewolf but now it does.