Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
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#2Give the kids the SGT puzzles web page.
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#3This is a great read, I recently fell down the rabbithole reading about all the different versions of minecraft that have been cracked and playable in the browser so kids can play it on school laptops, that was a great thread to follow too.
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#4Speaking as a past kid trying to play video games on school laptops, I'm really grateful for the experience.
Some of my first experience with reverse engineering/pentesting methodologies came from extracting flash games from websites so they could run without getting net-nannied, or learning that you could use google translate to run a makeshift web proxy.
Honestly helped kickstart a lot of my learning about computers.
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#5This relates to something that has been bugging me lately, which is as a parent I have zero parental control over the devices that our school board issues to my children. My kids have iPhones and iPads, which are part of my Apple family account, and I can both monitor what they are doing and also set limits on screen time including hours of usage and for particular apps. However, I recently became aware that my son was staying up until the wee hours of the morning scrolling on Instagram and YouTube, using his school-issued iPad, and I had no idea this was happening.
I am not entirely sure how to approach this. On the one hand, I am unsympathetic to parents who might want the kind of control that prevents children from accessing information about sexuality, for example. On the other, I really don’t want my kids to have unfettered access to social media and YouTube entirely without my knowledge. Suggestions on this are welcome.
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#6I got my start in computers figuring out how to play games on school computers.
No class or degree could have taught me as much or been as valuable for my career.
Educators shouldn’t try too har to win this arms race. Losing is also winning.
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#7As with many here I'm sure, during "computer lab" I was often done with assignments quite quickly all through school.
The teachers rarely had any extra work to assign me so they pretty much gave me carte blanche to use my time however I wanted as long as it was on the computer.
Great memories of trying to skirt school "blockers" in order to get to gaming websites in high school (this would have been in the early 00s). Glad to see this spirit is still alive and well and probably even moreso now than ever.
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#8This relates to something that has been bugging me lately, which is as a parent I have zero parental control over the devices that our school board issues to my children. My kids have iPhones and iPads, which are part of my Apple family account, and I can both monitor what they are doing and also set limits on screen time including hours of usage and for particular apps. However, I recently became aware that my son w…
You control the network that device is on. Block and/or track access using that fact.
I use a combination of DNS via https://1.1.1.1/ and WiFi/DHCP via https://eero.com/.
Works great.
Yes. This should be way easier.
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#9This game of cat-and-mouse has existed for at least as long as I've been in school (21 years ago). Back then it was calculator games, finding an unblocked flash site game, or booting games off USBs. One of the best weeks ever was when we got Unreal Tournament (the original) to boot off USBs and work on the LAN. ~20 person in-class deathmatch games were wild.
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#10Ahh, reminds me of the old days playing Doom in my school's computer lab.
Good times.