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by rustcleaner 8 days ago
I agree with @protocolture (Robotech... nice). I will be handing GrapheneOS phones, Qubes OS laptops, and Mullvad subscriptions to my [future] kids and teaching them how the world really works and how to stay safe. I will teach them how to torrent, and how to sysadmin like it was reading and writing. I will teach them to treat the internet like a real life spy vs spy battlezone, basically always falsify and poison as much as possible, the vital information about one's self. I will teach them to hate both Apple and Microsoft, and the reasons why they should hate them.

What I won't do is lock them down, like so much of this comment section is in support of doing. I am disgusted by the death of the cyberpunk ethos from the turn of the millennium.

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Yeah pretty much where I am going to have to go with my kid.

I had a job interview at a school ages ago, and while I didnt expect to take it I still asked. How much of your security risk comes from inside the student population, and how much is external. And they said, 100% external. The students hadnt so much as knocked on a port in 10 years. And that horrified me. School as I see it, is a safe place to learn opsec, and you learn opsec by failing. Either that or these kids have the network completely pwned but I didnt get that feeling.

My kiddo will have a desktop soonishly and very much is getting an education in good opsec.