Under the noble-sounding goal of protecting children
As a former child:
Fuck dem kids
Transgressing upon rules, taking risks and accessing “forbidden knowledge” is a formative experience of children. Even the myths of ancient civilisations speak for this. The goddamn Adam and eve story is about “kids” (in the moral development sense) breaking the rules and becoming true adults as a result.
As someone who was also a child and someone who works in an IT department for a school system, I can tell you, transgressing upon the rules is alive and well. The amount of creative, inventive, zero-day level exploits these kids get into just so they can play knock off Minecraft on their Chromebook makes me think that a future socialist state run hacking program should be manned entirely by middle schoolers.
I had school issued laptops towards the end of my schooling and I managed to install a N64 emulator and play smash with friends on it. It’s the only reason I learned to understand any system language and coding back then. I had to get some friends to help because I was clueless, but I did succeed in the end
Literally, we have incoming students here today doing intake assessments, and they asked one of the office people, “So what is the list of blocked stuff here? Is Fort Night blocked? Is Minecraft blocked?” and when they heard the answer, one kid said, “Well, do you know what hacking is? It can just be hacked.”
As a former child:
And also of course
As someone who was also a child and someone who works in an IT department for a school system, I can tell you, transgressing upon the rules is alive and well. The amount of creative, inventive, zero-day level exploits these kids get into just so they can play knock off Minecraft on their Chromebook makes me think that a future socialist state run hacking program should be manned entirely by middle schoolers.
I had school issued laptops towards the end of my schooling and I managed to install a N64 emulator and play smash with friends on it. It’s the only reason I learned to understand any system language and coding back then. I had to get some friends to help because I was clueless, but I did succeed in the end
ender’s game but they’re trying to figure out how to play minecraft
Literally, we have incoming students here today doing intake assessments, and they asked one of the office people, “So what is the list of blocked stuff here? Is Fort Night blocked? Is Minecraft blocked?” and when they heard the answer, one kid said, “Well, do you know what hacking is? It can just be hacked.”