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May 28, 2010 | Posted At: 10:10 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Parents & Parenting , Teachers, Teaching, Unions , Technology Is Scary , The Business Of Education

Techno: German Poem Unlocks School Cyberspy System

image from www.uni-heidelberg.de Your district may be spying on students and teachers via laptops -- and so may outside hackers.  A laptop cyberspy program installed in 200K school and government computers can be hijacked and used by anyone, according to this story in Wired.  And the key to hacking the system is a German poem.  
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