i find it fascinating how limiting network access for kids does not result in them abiding by your rules but rather leads them to find ways around it

my parents always restricted my internet on a MAC address whitelist mechanism so i learned how to use wireshark and ip tools

my high school had a firewall set up to prevent us from accessing game websites and tools that could potentially help us cheat, so i learned how to bypass their sophos and fortinet firewalls by setting up an nginx conf for google.com on my server, doing host header spoofing and tunelling my traffic over wireguard which was also tunneled over chisel, a http tunnel

maybe i would've followed their rules if they had a reasonable explanation as to why it was for my own good instead of screaming at me and forcing their bullshit views onto me

@alina yup. My dad kept unplugging my Ethernet cable so I convinced my mom to get me a WiFi card because Bluetooth. Used that to connect when it seemed like I was doing homework because he didn't know how to disable wifi and didn't want to cut off access for my mom's iBook.

... This gives me an idea for a great interview question