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by Terretta
1200 days ago
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> As i keep telling people, self hosting is fun as long as your user count is 1. When it grows beyond that, you suddenly have a SLA. This is the principle I.T. departments fail to grasp. > Kids also brings all sorts of devices with new and exiting exploits/vira... Curiosity: while vira is arguably less wrong, hackers of a certain age would have expected viri or virii, which are more wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_form_of_words_ending_in... From Tom Christiansen, of Perl fame: http://www.ofb.net/~jlm/virus.html // Meanwhile, in "Kids also brings" – I fully support what you did there! |
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It of course also helps that in 2023, literally all school work, for better or for worse, is done through the cloud. I wrote printers above, and yes, they do have access to the printers, but apart from our 3D Printers, the laser/inkjet printers have seen very little use.
Here the schools use Microsoft, which means assignments are done in Word/Excel, and handed in online either through a school portal, or shared from OneDrive.
I won't get into the privacy details, but we do have some fairly strict laws concerning kids and identity protection (a thing that recently got Google kicked out from the educational sector), so while not ideal it is probably not as bad as it sounds.
Apart from school work, their needs are mostly only local peer to peer networking for games, and/or internet access, and all can be accomplished by simply sticking them on a "less restricted" guest network, while at the same time making reasonably sure they're not wiping out the rest of the households computers :)
The firewall also runs a very small subset of IDS/IPS rules, mostly concerning malware/bot rules, and we use a NextDNS profile per subnet to filter out the worst.
> Curiosity: while vira is arguably less wrong, hackers of a certain age would have expected viri or virii
My bad, i used the latin plural form of virus, which is vira. In any case, my network setup should keep most vira, viruses or virii out :)