Re:T-Mobile's John Legere Goes Off the Deep End: 'Who the Fu...
by vidarh on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:55AM
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> when in fact a proper parental control solution should be client-based because as soon as your child goes to WiFi at MacDonalds/Starbucks they probably have access to all the adult content they want to see by bypassing the wireless carrier parental control network controls.
And to anyone that doesn't think kids know how to change the wifi settings:
My son is 6. He trawls for open wifi like crazy if I don't start my hotspot. And other kids do to, at an alarming rate: We were flying to see his grandma before christmas and at the gate at London Gatwick, I turned on my hotspot. He was one the iPad that automatically connected. Only I had turned the password off at some point for some reason. Within a couple of minutes, half a dozen kids had joined his Minecraft world by finding my hotspot, and then starting Minecraft and realising there was an accessible local server ....
(alarming, because they'd be an oh-so-tempting target for all kinds of stuff...)
And to anyone that doesn't think kids know how to change the wifi settings:
My son is 6. He trawls for open wifi like crazy if I don't start my hotspot. And other kids do to, at an alarming rate: We were flying to see his grandma before christmas and at the gate at London Gatwick, I turned on my hotspot. He was one the iPad that automatically connected. Only I had turned the password off at some point for some reason. Within a couple of minutes, half a dozen kids had joined his Minecraft world by finding my hotspot, and then starting Minecraft and realising there was an accessible local server ....
(alarming, because they'd be an oh-so-tempting target for all kinds of stuff...)