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Yes, but they would be clued in because the SSL certificate wouldn't be valid unless they trust your CA.
by brazzledazzle 12y ago
Yes, but they would be clued in because the SSL certificate wouldn't be valid unless they trust your CA.
- downandout 12y agoThat's pretty trivial for parents. "Hey pumpkin, I need to borrow your phone for a second". That said this is something that maybe 0.1% of parents could or would set up.
- chrissnell 12y agoGood point, but it's an interesting idea. An open-source home firewall that's designed with features/sniffers that lets parents keep an eye on their kids' online usage.
- downandout 12y agoI was thinking the same thing. Call it Kidsafe or something. Make it automatically configure the router and let parents access the info online. Most phones are programmed to use wifi at home - seems like a promising opportunity.
- Cthulhu_ 12y ago"Oh my GAWD MOM! YOU ALWAYS DO THIS! squeals hysterically"
- maccard 12y agoHave you met a teenager? They will blindly just click ignore/ok until they can do what they want. an invalid cert error isn't going to stop them unless it actually blocks (rather than warns and lets them proceed)
- ColinDabritz 12y agoIn fact, most users will behave this way, it's not exclusive to teenagers.
- iancarroll 12y agoPretty sure you can't hit OK on this one, it'll just hard fail.