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I refuse to use lab computers on this basis. I assume they're owned and have keyloggers. I'd sooner use someone else's toothbrush.

I don't understand why more labs don't use dumb terminals to hook back into a VM that gets blown out the airlock after each and every use.

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It's not very hard to build a keylogger using basic pic chips and install them into a keyboard. The same could be done against a dumb terminal. For bonus points, put a bluetooth module / picoduino inside so that you can read out people's keystrokes without touching it again.

Cost and complexity of administration most likely.

Also time, our university did something like this on their library computers. It meant waiting 5min after someone logged out for it to do a system restore before the next person could log in. Which seemed like forever when you're rushing to print a paper.

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