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Originally Posted by KyleGilbert45
I think the school has every right to search "THEIR" lockers, with "their" being the key term. People always argue that the lockers tend to be their own personal property/space but you have to remember that the school owns the locker, not you.
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And who owns the school? ;-)
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Originally Posted by KyleGilbert45
It is also your choice to use their locker in most situations, so if you have something to hide, hide it somewhere else.
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Not everyone who values their civil liberties "has something to hide". It's a slipperly slope indeed...
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Originally Posted by KyleGilbert45
I've never heard of schools using any type of "AIM Sniffer" but they also discouraged the use of any chat programs at my high school. I would also have to agree that the school has the right to log your conversations since it is "their" network.
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I agree Kyle, but for subtly different reasons. It is a public resource as much as any. Taxpayer money pays for that connection, and if officials elected by the taxpayers have deemed you can't use IM, they are acting on behalf of the people who paid for that connection. If you have a problem with it, attend some school board meetings.
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Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov
My school also has rules on locker searches. The question is what is more illegal: bringing a gun to school, or getting a locker searched? You'd think it's common sense not to bring a gun, but some people won't realize that.
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IANAL but if I recall correctly it's legal to bring a gun to school in many states (in your car), if you have a gun rack and are otherwise obeying the law. I believe this is the case in Virginia.
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Originally Posted by Levin571
An example is that I rescently discovered that my boarding school uses a program called "AIM sniffer" to log the AIM messages of all the students on our intranet (both incoming and outgoing). This is a clear violation of both the first and fourth amendments, and even thought cases like this have been brought to court, it still persists.
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Well, I'm no good at solving social problems, but I can usually fix issues with technical wizardry. The most obvious solution is to use encryption (Google for info, it's very easy with AIM and GAIM). If you want to go a step further, I could whip up a little program for you that logs on to two AIM screen names (one of them being yours and the other being one set up for this purpose) and sends text back and forth randomly in the background. Get a bunch of people to run this and they'll have too much data on their hands to sort through. Oooh, and you could even make it statistically identical to real AIM convos with a markov algorithm, foiling their attempts to read through it.