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Usually I require a root cert so devices can have their traffic inspected or be isolated into an unsafe network where most nonessential traffic is blocked by default. I suppose letting an iot device connect will become more risky in the future when I can't control the dns resolver or can't confidently block requests through dns alone.

My guess is that the vast majority of people will trade data for a cheaper price point every time (my wife is certainly one of these people), so the market just can't support the volume of sales necessary to make the price point of dumb tvs competitive.

If it's windows, they can just live boot into the OS and get access to pretty much all the files anyway, if the parent didn't encrypt things.

My point is, if the implementation is trivial to bypass, why do we need this legislation? Just let the parents use the existing tools we have and parent.

But the real fun began when we showed people how to set bios passwords and that cascaded into kids rendering an entire classroom of computers unbootable.

And then there was the time I thought I was really clever because I realized I could open arbitrary files in notepad, so I attempted to edit save files for a learn-to-type program by replacing the score with my own. It seemed to work so I told my friends and then they started copying the same save file into their program files. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I do know the UI update did not propagate to the actual scores and also it introduced a bug into the prodgram which would cause it to crash at distant future epochs, so we destroyed the program for everyone, not just our user profiles. There was an investigation and I think they gave up because the same bad file somehow was on everyone's computer and everyone just told them they got the file from someone else and there was no root of the chain.

This is all to say, any bypass will be identified and implemented at the speed of virality.

Do we really think parents will notice that a kid has installed a specific executable? The purpose of this law is to allow parents to outsource caring out which executables are safe, so there is no reason they would check.

Plus a kid can just live boot from a USB if the parent doesn't lock the bios, which would give them an ephemeral session to do whatever they want without the parent knowing unless caught-in-the-act.

I adds a bit of burden to all sites under the threat of civil penalties. Say I own a site that allows user posts like HN. If someone mentions they're in grade school in any post and later starts receiving links to adult sites in their DMs, now I'm liable.