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Is Edmodo spyware?
| Use it in a vm
| >>382683
^
Check it with wireshark to see if it phones home, check the privacy policy as well, then you have your answer
| >Is <proprietary software> spyware?
Yes
| >>382135
>I have to use that thing because some teachers use it to manage their classes.
If you're on a public school I would refuse to use it. Or at least the school has to provide/pay you a separate device or permanent access to a computer room that you can use for school things. It can't be that someone forces you to install stuff on YOUR personal, private device.
| >>382135
>However, I have a strong feeling that its main purpose is to steal info of the students, teachers and fathers.
Unfortunately it doesn't count as "stealing" if people accept the privacy policy alongside the terms-of-service:
https://go.edmodo.com/privacy-policy/
The only thing you can do is rebelling against such platforms and annoy the shit out of the ignorant masses loudly. But also prepare well for suggesting alternatives and help people to get used with them.
| Also interesting:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezjbwe/hacker-steals-millions-of-user-account-details-from-education-platform-edmodo
In general I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out one day, that the "evil hackers" who "stole data" from some service providers, just were on their paycheck to sell the "stolen" data on some kind of a corporate black market.
| Jesus Christ nobody cares about the info Edmodo has cause the only info it could have it's your full name, email and password, all thing the internet already has.
Yeah they have your student record but if your teachers use it like mine does they just use the exam as a form of homework or just to pass list so it's basically useless as student records
| >Jesus Christ nobody cares about the info Edmodo has
You don't speak for me. You can't just decide for others what they have to care for and what not. If you don't care it's your thing. You can go to China and install your "good citizen" app to gain social credit points and have implants by your (futer?) employer to increase your exploit- ehm "productivity". You can also pay someone to punch your balls. But don't expect others to make such things and like it.
| >the only info it could have it's your full name, email and password
WRONG!
Please read again the terms of service/privacy policy. They also may have your phone number, your "contacts" data and all data you enter, also about people who don't (want to) use this platform and give them their data. How would you find it, if I'll share all information i get about you with some "third parties", without informing you and knowing what they do with it. This is just criminal.
| >>383267 Thing is, you don't have a choice when it comes to Edmodo, when your teacher says you use it, you do it.
| >You can't just decide for others what they have to care for and what not.
Funny hearing that from /tech/, considering not too long ago titled "Stop spamming windows issues".
/tech/'s got the biggest justice boner when it comes to telling people how they shouldn't care for proprietary software.
| >>383270
>when your teacher says you use it, you do it.
No. A teacher has no right to force pupils (or their parents) to accept the terms of service of a specific private, non-public company.
Just image a teacher would only accept homework written on paper or with ink from a specific company.
| >>383290
For the 1000st time: It's because providers of proprietary software, like windows, usually violate free/open standards and establishing their own proprietary standards to lock-in people, restrict their freedom of choice and exclude competitors from market. Same is for all those centralized web platforms.
If you use proprietary software or even offer free service for it, you help establish it which forces others to use it too. Is that so hard to understand?
| >>383728
Man, what a generation of cowards!
If the teacher really "doesn't care" it's time to let a lawyer convince him.
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| I have to use that thing because some teachers use it to manage their classes.
However, I have a strong feeling that its main purpose is to steal info of the students, teachers and fathers.
What do you think?
(BTW, the platform is uncomfortable as hell, it honestly feels incomplete)