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> Linux is fine. Someone can build the ultimately perfect parental control software for Linux and I'll use it. You can't build a perfectly secure system and st
by crote 1y ago
> Linux is fine. Someone can build the ultimately perfect parental control software for Linux and I'll use it.
You can't build a perfectly secure system and still respect the user's freedom. The perfect parental control system is by definition also going to be the ultimate rootkit - or else you'd just boot your own kernel which perfectly fakes the parental controls.
In such a world you wouldn't be allowed to build your own OS, only boot a pre-approved image. The Linux community is not exactly likely to participate in this.
- wvenable 1y agoNo solution is perfect but we already have secure boot. It doesn't even have to mandate some pre-approved image; it just has to be an image that I approve and lock. This is already a well solved problem for corporate environments. You miss the point. I want all the power. Let me install and configure a Linux image of any sort and then lock it down. I am root. My kid is a mere user. There is nothing terribly difficult or even controversial about that.
- hellojesus 1y agoAgreed. Plus think how great the infosec candidates of the future will be as kids all across the world constantly red team against their parents.
- wvenable 1y agoThis is no lie: My son brute-forced the parental control pin on his iPhone. For over 6 months, he would just try random combinations while in bed at night. One night, I don't know when, he found the right pin. I'm not sure how long he had it bypassed before we figured it out.