Threat Model: Parents

[Irving Poe]

Hi,

My best guess would be to use their own weapons against them.
Check the history to know what software have they installed. If nothing
shows up, go for the stored cookies, recently opened documents, etc...
There is always a lot of traces remnant to a computer utilization.
Without knowing what their weapon is, you can't do anything. As said, it
can be a hardware keylogger which will prevent any software
countermeasures.

Finding what happened on a computer is called forensics, research it online
to find relevant information, and then with specifying which OS your target
is to find more relevant details.

Good luck, and stay free.

On 31 May 2015 03:24:45 GMT+01:00, Gadit Bielman <
thetransintransgenic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to help (probably badly, but..) a friend deal with parents
that they expect are spying on them.
 Wipe the machine, install fresh and clean Linux, and then password lock
the BIOS.

On 31 May 2015 03:24:45 GMT+01:00, Gadit Bielman <
thetransintransgenic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to help (probably badly, but..) a friend deal with parents that
> they expect are spying on them.
> I know that in general, it's impossible to secure a computer that you
> can't trust and don't necessarily have administrator privileges to.
>
> But their parents are not exactly the NSA -- any spying that's happening
> is almost definitely some sort of product, plus basic things like maybe
> looking through their history. (I don't know much about they're situation
> -- maybe they know more, so
> well-if-you-know-they-do-this-then-you-could-do-this type advice would
> still be helpful.)
>
> Would antivirus be able to detect spy-on-your-kids products? Would they be
> able to scan their computer with like Immunet or something, even if they
> didn't have administrator privileges?
>
> Tor would probably help -- unless the monitoring was looki! ng at the RAM
> or something for website names, which would be way overkill on a commercial
> product, no? Or (more likely) if it was taking screenshots at regular
> intervals, which would also break running a VM or something. (Is there any
> way to detect taking screenshots?)
>
> I know probably the best thing would be running TAILS as a LiveCD -- the
> problem with that is that it's REALLY obvious over-the-shoulder.
>
>
> Um, thoughts about any of those?
> Any other things about parents as a threat model in general?
>
> I know this is pretty far from what is usually discussed on here, but I'm
> really interested in what you think/it would potentially help a lot of
> people.
>

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