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Hardly. Back then we had an atmosphere of freedom and parents didn't understand things properly. We had root access. Now children are put under surveillance and
by UweSchmidt 10y ago
Hardly. Back then we had an atmosphere of freedom and parents didn't understand things properly. We had root access. Now children are put under surveillance and can't leave the walled gardens set up by corporations.
- cryptarch 10y agoYeah right, like computers are locked down that tight. It still takes my 13 year old brother just a few hours to figure out he has to put the Mac in recovery mode to allow the changing of system files (forgot what that security theater was called). Most parents haven't suddenly learned to set BIOS passwords or to protect the admin passwords, and even then, it's not too hard to burn and boot a disk that removes password checks from an unencrypted system.
- UweSchmidt 10y agoThat's why Google is handling this on the kid's Android device (possibly the main computing device for many) now.
- xg15 10y agoParents don't need to know about root passwords if even they don't have root access in the first place... (At least that seems to be the strategy on mobile)
- navs 10y agoThere's always some article or post on a forum with instructions on how to circumvent. Kids just need to Google it.
- 67726e 10y agoI never had root access, my parents always had locked down accounts and parental software. I'm not saying it might not be more of a slog to get around things on an Android phone, but it's not mission impossible. Never underestimate the resourcefulness of a kid who wants to play video games.
- neves 10y agoBack we didn't have Pornhub.