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    @Obsolesce said in SSL Decryption of American K12 School in Connecticut: Legality?:

    Here are some points to consider:

    Consent and Notification: It's essential to have explicit consent from parents or legal guardians if students are minors. Even if students are not employees, they still have privacy rights. Proper notification to both students and parents is crucial.

    FERPA Compliance: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects the privacy of student education records. Any monitoring should be in compliance with FERPA regulations to avoid violations.

    Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): If the school is providing online services or websites to students under the age of 13, COPPA may come into play. It requires obtaining parental consent for collecting personal information from children.

    Vendor Liability: If a breach of student private communications occurs due to IT or vendor mistakes, there could be potential liability issues. Schools should have agreements in place with vendors that address data security and liability.

    Local and State Laws: Laws regarding electronic surveillance, data privacy, and education can vary by state and locality. It's important to consult with legal experts who are knowledgeable about local regulations.

    Balancing Security and Privacy: Schools must strike a balance between ensuring network security and respecting student privacy. An overly intrusive monitoring system could raise concerns.

    Ultimately, it's crucial to consult with legal counsel who specializes in education law and data privacy to ensure that the school system's practices comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Additionally, a transparent and well-documented approach to monitoring, including clear notification to students and parents, can help mitigate potential legal risks.

    This is good input. Ultimately liability is going to come down to primarily local laws and statutes and what the legal department of the district has done to ensure safety and indemnification, and of course what transparency, notification and consent has been granted. That students are required to attend school, are not employees or at will, and are minors make this not just different, but essentially the opposite, of an employment situation. Any breach of privacy (not meaning a breach of IT systems, but the IT systems themselves) could violate constitutional rights as well as international human rights...

    From a law firm on US right to privacy... "The right to privacy is a fundamental human right, and it is recognized by international treaties and many countries’ Constitutions. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the right to privacy in Article 12, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights further elaborates on the right to privacy in Article 17.

    At the same time, different countries have different laws and regulations when it comes to privacy. In the United States, for example, the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. This has been interpreted by the courts to include the right to privacy."

    Even if students are not minors, the question is whether this constitutes unreasonable search leading to violation of privacy. And of course if it puts minors at risk, that's an additional concern.

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    @AdamF said in Proxmox and VM Replication - Followup:

    Also curious if your clients(or you) purchase support plans from Proxmox?

    No. None of the setups in use are complicated enough that there is a need for support from the vendor.

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    @ElecEng said in Is the domain .Local a real problem in a private lan that has no public facing services?:

    @scottalanmiller What's the best thing to use on green field networks that are private and have no public facing services?

    Not AD.

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    @ElecEng easy to do with Postfix. But with Office 365 I don't know how that would be done.

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    @flaxking said in Need and IIS based hosting option aside from Azure:

    they could rewrite enough to upgrade to the latest .Net and not have to run on Windows.

    And confirmed. They are updating to ASP.Net Core 7

    So they can run everything pretty much anywhere. Time to test out Kestrel and YARP it seems.

  • How to manage remote work with little to no resources, and venting?

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    @Jimmy9008 said in How to manage remote work with little to no resources, and venting?:

    I feel its time to move on.

    This was my thought even before I read the post, and still is afterwards.

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    @CCWTech said in Can you run a Windows desktop OS as a server to run AVImark Veterinary Software?:

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    Very impressive, so few people are actually looking to research and learn, just to argue. Kudos to him.

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    @scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi 5 Announced Today:

    For those who don't want to read all of the details...

    Basically everything from CPU to RAM to GPU is 2x - 3x higher performance than the RP4 from 2018.

    Support hats will be available directly from RP for both PoE+ power (no need for external power on these!!) and, drumroll, for M.2 NVMe drives. Meaning you can really use this as a real computer like never before. Lack of native M.2 support was the killer of the RP4 generation.

    An RP4 with NVMe would have made it a reasonable desktop system. Without it, it was hard to do anything requiring drive performance of any sort. With more than double the performance across the "board" and NVMe support, this is a very, very powerful workstation.

    Active cooling is now semi-standard to accommodate all of this, too.

    Now if only I could get one - I have a need for two of these right now..

  • ProxMox Storage Configuration Question (idk how lol)

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    @GUIn00b Seems right. I'm old school and learned MD before the interface was added to LVM. It's all the same stuff, just new command line options. But it sure looks right to me.

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    The Linux / Windows approach gives you far more flexibility. MacOS is useless in a million scenarios. But when it is good, it's really good. The UI is still pretty crap, but things like patching they can do with a reliability no one else can. No matter how hard anyone tries, vertical integration of components means things like patching can be tested completely, not just spot checked.

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    @scottalanmiller said in Avimark "Microsoft Word not properly installed..." error appears suddendly:

    @sjigabby said in Avimark "Microsoft Word not properly installed..." error appears suddendly:

    @MC_Bol Trying to help a friend with this issue, we have uninstalled word coreball and reinstalled multiple times and still getting the error message. Please help!!

    the issue is you have to remove. Not remove and install again. Having it installed appears to not be an option.

    I think you misunderstood what he meant. He installed and uninstalled it many times but the error still occurs.

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    @scottalanmiller said in macOS 14 Sonoma:

    macOS Sonoma 14 has released this morning. Mac users can update now. I'm just about to kick off the update myself.

    https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/

    No major features that I would call important in any way. but lots of little things.

    Released yesterday. I upgraded to it with zero issues. I'll be using my laptop as my primary device today and tomorrow, so if there are any issues, I expect to find them. so far, nothing.

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    @AdamF said in COLO Switching & Power:

    @scottalanmiller said in COLO Switching & Power:

    How many switches do you anticipate needing in the colo?

    I'm just looking 2 replace 2 at this point.

    LOL, so it IS a small office switch anyway. You should be thinking of it the same way we think of a 15 person veterinary office at that size.

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    After scouring countless sites and articles, only thing that could fully read the drives was UFS Explorer. $700 later and many, many crashes, we are starting to have a reliable process of recovering the data. We have to use UFS Explorer and recover as raw disk images. Then attach those raw images to new VMs manually. Then do a Windows recover to each one.

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    @Dashrender nice

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    @WLS-ITGuy Typically we use the time to rebuild. Any VM should, in theory, be quick and easy to rebuild. If it isn't, it's the perfect time to make it so.

    If you absolutely have to convert rather than move through application migration, then there are disk conversation tools that change the format. There's very little needed for the migration.