Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”
Parental controls are an excellent tool to teach kids how to bypass parental controls.
I support this, so long as there’s no rules against kids learning how to bypass parental controls. It’s basically a CTF. All kids should learn how to mitigate internet censorship.
“Would someone think of the children” gets used way to much to defend policies that harm children
Surveillance and control around tech has become highly advanced which means that it isn’t trivial to bypass restrictions like to was before. Chromebooks get locked down heavily and everything students do is carefully watched and controlled. What’s worse is that kids who can afford a laptop will have a major advantage which will further increase inequality.
My daughter learned how to spoof her MAC address at age 12 to bypass any controls I added. Then I went with a separate WiFi for her which physically powered down when needed. She ‘solved’ that with a hammer to the lock on the cabinet with the equipment.
Sigh … eventually (after broken walls, me getting punched hard, police visits, dropping out of school) I kinda gave up and let her deal. She actually went to college after the public system basically gave her a high school degree for doing very little, but dropped out of that. Now she’s back home and as I type she’s rage yelling at her computer.
Parental controls are an excellent tool to teach kids how to bypass parental controls.
I support this, so long as there’s no rules against kids learning how to bypass parental controls. It’s basically a CTF. All kids should learn how to mitigate internet censorship.
“Would someone think of the children” gets used way to much to defend policies that harm children
Surveillance and control around tech has become highly advanced which means that it isn’t trivial to bypass restrictions like to was before. Chromebooks get locked down heavily and everything students do is carefully watched and controlled. What’s worse is that kids who can afford a laptop will have a major advantage which will further increase inequality.
My daughter learned how to spoof her MAC address at age 12 to bypass any controls I added. Then I went with a separate WiFi for her which physically powered down when needed. She ‘solved’ that with a hammer to the lock on the cabinet with the equipment.
How did you reward her for this epic win?
Sigh … eventually (after broken walls, me getting punched hard, police visits, dropping out of school) I kinda gave up and let her deal. She actually went to college after the public system basically gave her a high school degree for doing very little, but dropped out of that. Now she’s back home and as I type she’s rage yelling at her computer.