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October 22, 2004 at 3:58 am #36331SpikeMemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by David
Guess who’s constitutional rights were violated? MINE!
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
Article [IV.]
The right of the people … to be seized.Sorry, Dave, you’re wrong on this. When you’re in school, they only need ‘probable cause’ to search your stuff. Which basically means any teacher can make up an excuse to search you, so be thankful they don’t. And they don’t need a warrant, either. I know this becuase we just studied this today in History. Sorry to burst yuo bubble, though…:o
October 22, 2004 at 4:00 am #36320DavidParticipantNo, I don’t care that they searched anything, THEY TOOK MY COMPUTER AND LOCKED IT IN A ROOM. They can’t take anything, not without any evidence.
October 22, 2004 at 10:48 am #36328neo_ny_23Member“I can do whatever I want, I run this school.”
Tell him that u are paying his bills.. not that he is doing any huge favor to u. Its u who is doing favor to him by paying his bills indirectly.
He asks me to boot my laptop and let them “see what I have,” doesn’t that require a search warrant?
Ask him for the search warrant. If he babbles a lot, just say “I dont like to show my personal belongings to any moron.”
This woman now asks me what “player.exe” is on my desktop, and asks me to run it. (What the hell could she think it is? Some hacking tool? lol!) My hand-coded media player opens, and she is impressed with my skill (Heh, 4 Hours total).— Should have scared her by saying that its a hi-fy softwares which dimwit IT teachers like her cant understand or configure.
I was then told that I could not connect my laptop to their network. —- Why not? If they are so scared of their computers being hacked why dont they secure it ?October 22, 2004 at 11:42 am #36315CharlesMemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by DavidNo, I don’t care that they searched anything, THEY TOOK MY COMPUTER AND LOCKED IT IN A ROOM. They can’t take anything, not without any evidence.
Exactly. The 4th Amendment protects you from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. They didn’t seem to offer a reason for searching the laptop, either a sign of paranoia, stupidity, or both ;).
You did nothing wrong, it’d be different if they had come in and said they were finding suspicious traffic coming from your IP and wanted to check your system…but this is after they have first checked their network. They didn’t have the right to confiscate your laptop without telling you why. And even if they did tell you why, the reason can’t be you were on the network or something so harmless.
🙂 stupid school administration, I hope you take it to the school board, get someone fired for being stupid :p
October 22, 2004 at 9:01 pm #36313Jeff HesterKeymasterYou take a 1,700 laptop to highschool??? You must live in some rich community, or people are just overall good there. You take a laptop to school in Miami and that’s like saying rob me now please althought I’m sure that could be anywhere else too. Anyway I’m glad to read you didn’t get suspended or anything even though you didn’t do anything. At least you weren’t writing a note to some teacher you have a crush on. heh.
October 22, 2004 at 11:45 pm #36318OreoMemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by DavidGuess who’s constitutional rights were violated? MINE!
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
Article [IV.]
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,Dave, that’s all well and good, but most schools at this point have handbooks or things that you have to sign at the beginning of the year with rules. When you read them closely, they cover search and seizure. AND again, when you are INSIDE of a school, things change. Plain and simple…this is a grey area of the law.
October 28, 2004 at 3:22 am #36332kron_19792000MemberIt is hilarious, the lengths to which people/IT “techies” will go to prevent a person from using a floppy/CD on their computer, but will allow you to access any website/mail server. They simply dont understand you do not need a floopy/external storage device any more to transfer data all you need is a mail account. Yahoo has 100mb and gmail with 1GB what else do you need. The thing that irritates me is when the so called “experts” talk about things they have no idea about, they just read a page in a book and they think they know every thing. My administrator told us not to view “any” .jpeg files when the vunerability was made public knowledge. WTF he is mad. The worst part I feel is that teachers think they are GODs and that their students are DUMB. If only teachers would accept that they can learn certain things from their students also, the world would be a much better place
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