Absolute Software, which sold the software used to spy on students in Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District, has attacked what it calls the school district's "vigilantism."

"Absolute Software said it dissuades users of theft-recovery software from acting on their own," writes Computerworld's Gregg Keizer. "'We discourage any customer from taking theft recovery into their own hands,' said Stephen Midgley, the company's head of marketing, in an interview Monday. 'That's best left in the hands of professionals.'"

"Midgley confirmed that Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa. was running Absolute Manage, formerly known as LANRev, which Absolute Software acquired last December," Keizer writes.

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