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by gloosx 42 days ago
When I was a kid, I went as far as to install a key-logger on the computer to get the master password from the parental controls, silently disabling them when I wanted and enabling them again when I'm done so parents would never notice.

It's almost sad this AI age verification bs doesn't even pose too big of a challenge for kid's creativity

2 comments

Sounds like you were more sophisticated as a kid than your adult parents
Kids are highly motivated, and have a lot of free time. They make truly obnoxious adversaries.
A true Advance Persistent Threat, although not always that advanced, but definitely persistent.
Most kids are more sophisticated than their parents, who are usually too tired by the burdens of life to notice
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Hardcore!