On My WalkWas just introduced to #GoGuardian after reviewing traffic from a public school-issued Chromebook. I tried trivial methods of blocking the DNS server it appeared to be using with #PiHole and my gateway's firewall. I made progress, but the content filtering is still largely in place. I assume its the GoGuardian Chrome browser extension that's owning me, but I don't see what hostnames it's interacting with 🤔
adison verlice@kkarhan also, the problem is that contentkeeper #cloud, #goguardian, #securely and all of these others are third parties. that means if they get breeched, guess what? student data gon. this absolutely cannot happen because schools have to follow ferpa and sign data processing agreements with the districts in question. so they not only violate ferpa, but also that DPA they signed
@kkarhan and that's what I like to do. this is coming from a student btw.
I have a school issued device, and I attack it, and torment it to help and back because it is fun to do.
if #goguardian s DNS filters can be bypassed by a network level firewall rule, imagine what remote learnings gotta be like
I have a school issued device, and I attack it, and torment it to help and back because it is fun to do.
if #goguardian s DNS filters can be bypassed by a network level firewall rule, imagine what remote learnings gotta be like
that's 4 vulnerabilities in 2 different #k12 products.
yes, 2. 1 in #goguardian and one in #contentkeeper #cloud interesting isin't it?
I did not mean to find that goguaridnan one, but guess what? I did!
shows you how easy it is to get around this, isn't it? the problem is we normally want the easy #filtering #bypass part, when we can use more advanced methods to get around #content #filtering .
I, in particular, look for the vulnerabilities in these k12 software noone tells you about. the vulnerabilities not found on YouTube, on odysee, or these other ones.
and I guess I found 4 of those lol
yes, 2. 1 in #goguardian and one in #contentkeeper #cloud interesting isin't it?
I did not mean to find that goguaridnan one, but guess what? I did!
shows you how easy it is to get around this, isn't it? the problem is we normally want the easy #filtering #bypass part, when we can use more advanced methods to get around #content #filtering .
I, in particular, look for the vulnerabilities in these k12 software noone tells you about. the vulnerabilities not found on YouTube, on odysee, or these other ones.
and I guess I found 4 of those lol
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇Well I didn't win my election, but my interest in #SchoolBoard policy is not going away.
Tonight, immediately after the new board members are sworn in, I will be presenting a public comment to #BVSD about their use of #GoGuardian, a technology that presents itself as a monitoring tool to ensure that kids visit age- and developmentally-appropriate websites on their school-issued laptops.
In October, the #EFF published a report about the privacy-invading and false-positive-prone tool. https://redflagmachine.com/research/
The report highlights key problems about the software misidentifying benign websites with run-of-the-mill, unharmful content as potentially harmful or containing explicit content. Poetry by the Bronte sisters, the text of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, and even the text of Romeo and Juliet set off red flags. So did words in the Texas driver’s handbook, and health information websites. These false positive warnings are touted by GoGuardian not as a bug but as a desirable feature of the product.
My concern here is that routine use of GoGuardian sends two very damaging messages to students: It normalizes routine surveillance, and it tells students that they cannot be trusted to use their computers responsibly.
I will be giving public comment to the new board asking them to direct school administrators to investigate the district's contract with GoGuardian, and to seek out a less invasive, more accurate method of protecting children who use computers.
If you wish, you can watch the board proceedings on their youtube livestream, starting at 6pm MST (UTC-7). The link is https://www.youtube.com/@bouldervalleyschooldistric5781/streams
Cory DoctorowHey look at this
* #BootsRiley: “The Only Answer Is Organizing on the Job” https://jacobin.com/2023/11/boots-riley-hollywood-gaza-class-struggle-wga-art/
* How #GoGuardian Invades #StudentPrivacy https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy
* Surveillance Wages: A Taxonomy https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-wages-a-taxonomy/
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Boots Riley: “The Only Answer Is Organizing on the Job”
Director, musician, and organizer Boots Riley puts class struggle front and center in all his work. He spoke with Jacobin about this year’s entertainment industry strikes, Israel’s war on Gaza, and how to jam radical politics through the Hollywood pipeline.
PrivacyDigestStudent #Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag #LGBTQ+ Keywords
One of the more dangerous features of #student monitoring tools like #GoGuardian, #Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality.
#privacy #surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/student-monitoring-tools-should-not-flag-lgbtq-keywords
Student Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag LGBTQ+ Keywords
One of the more dangerous features of student monitoring tools like GoGuardian, Gaggle, and Bark is their “flagging” functionality. The tools can scan web pages, documents in students’ cloud drives, emails, video content, and more for keywords about topics like sex, drugs, and violence. They then...
SetSideBGetting Past Gaming Blocks On School Laptops
The eternal struggle: schools want to give students computers on which to do assignments and participate in remote learning, and students want to use those machines to have fun doing things other than schoolwork.
Fizz over on Metafilter, who regularly makes great gaming posts points us to a Vice article o
https://setsideb.com/getting-past-blocks-on-school-laptops/
#niche #education #exploit #fizz #goguardian #irwintech #vice #video #youtube
Mark DunkExecutive Appointments Announced at SESI, GoGuardian, Newsela, Matriculate, CAE, Cypher Learning, Territorium, EverDriven, The Nora Project
By Kristal Kuykendall
https://thejournal.com/articles/2023/01/04/people-on-the-move-in-nov-dec-2022.aspx
#edtech #sesi #goguardian #newsela #matriculate #cae #cyphtelearning #territorium #everdriven #noraproject #education #teaching #learning #schools #technology
Executive Appointments Announced at SESI, GoGuardian, Newsela, Matriculate, CAE, Cypher Learning, Territorium, EverDriven, The Nora Project -- THE Journal
Executive leadership appointments recently announced in the K–12 ed tech sector include Dawn Thomas at Specialized Education Services; Michael Jonas at GoGuardian; Jason Ediger at Newsela; Craig Robinson at Matriculate; Michael Woods at Council for Aid to Education; Jennifer Geisler and Matt Kane at Cypher Learning; Jonell Sanchez, Keith Look, Rebecca Busacca, Julie Murphy, Joe Green, and Eric Stoller at Territorium; Todd Provino at EverDriven; and Jen Newton at The Nora Project.