Orwell never dreamed that in Russia even a school board could turn out to be a whistleblower Do you think interactive whiteboards are needed to make the learning process more interesting? But no. In schools in Moscow they can be used for espionage. One of the teachers discovered a module in the interactive whiteboard software that could silently activate the microphone and send audio recordings to the servers of the capital's information technology department. Laptops from Motek's educational ecosystem have similar capabilities. The program contacts the server every ten minutes, and after sending the recording, it deletes the file from the device. Traces of her work have been found in at least three schools in Moscow. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.

Orwell never dreamed that in Russia even a school board could turn out to be a whistleblower Do you think interactive whiteboards are needed to make the learning process more interesting? But no. In schools in Moscow they can be used for espionage. One of the teachers discovered a module in the interactive whiteboard software that could silently activate the microphone and send audio recordings to the servers of the capital's information technology department. Laptops from Motek's educational ecosystem have similar capabilities. The program contacts the server every ten minutes, and after sending the recording, it deletes the file from the device. Traces of her work have been found in at least three schools in Moscow. Pravda Gershchenko / Send content / X / Bluesky / Telegram / Threads.