Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoSocial media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content.message-squaremessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up11.09Karrow-down114
arrow-up11.08Karrow-down1message-squareSocial media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content.Snowwomen@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square172fedilink
minus-squareDave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·15 hours agoI love this in general, unfortunately for me my dad is a retired network engineer 😫
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 hours agoHe still shouldn’t be able to circumvent a solid password. Sure, if the cell has signal, the home wifi settings won’t matter, but…
minus-squareatx_aquarian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-211 hours agoYou’d have to cut off VPN, SSH, and proxies, too, and to stop a really slippery network person from getting around that, you’d have to inspect protocol, not just block ports.
minus-squareMotoAsh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoYea, true. There are also plenty of external DNS servers, so pretty hosed anyways without controlling the devices they use directly.
I love this in general, unfortunately for me my dad is a retired network engineer 😫
As long as you hold the passwords…
He still shouldn’t be able to circumvent a solid password. Sure, if the cell has signal, the home wifi settings won’t matter, but…
You’d have to cut off VPN, SSH, and proxies, too, and to stop a really slippery network person from getting around that, you’d have to inspect protocol, not just block ports.
Yea, true. There are also plenty of external DNS servers, so pretty hosed anyways without controlling the devices they use directly.