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PSandusky writes “A report issued by the Lower Merion School District’s chosen law firm blames the district’s IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams.”

Source: Lower Marion School’s Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn’t Inhale

PSandusky writes “A report issued by the Lower Merion School District’s chosen law firm blames the district’s IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams.”

Source: Lower Merion School’s Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn’t Inhale

dotarray writes with this snippet: “The largest scandal in e-sports history is currently unfolding in Korea, with revelations that a number of current pro gamers are involved with match set-ups and illegal betting. While the gamers are un-named at this point, the story is said to touch many A-list StarCraft celebrities – including sAviOr, Ja Mae Yoon – one of the best-known and most successful players of all time.”

Source: StarCraft Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea

An anonymous reader followed up on the Windows memory-leak fraud scandal, which is worth reading before you read the perpetrator’s justification. “Randall C. Kennedy comes clean about his past, his relationship to Craig Barth and how it all came tumbling down. Includes an inside look at the politics of IDG and why you can never trust an IT publication that’s as obsessed with page views as InfoWorld.”

Source: Confessions of an Internet “Shock Jock”

Several sources following the recent school webcam spying debacle are reporting that an even stranger twist has surfaced. The student in question that was disciplined for an “improper act” was apparently accused of either drug use or drug selling. Turns out he was eating Mike & Ike candy, not popping pills. While there is probably more to this story than has made it to the general public the officials involved have done a particularly bad job of actually managing the events.

Source: School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre