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Side point: When you rent a Tesla, please do not sign into youtube. Subsequent renters can see your whole Google account (including family members, phone numbers etc). Or at least sign out before you return the car!
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> Making arbitrary rules unbreakable has always seemed iffy to me... It creates better hackers.
IMO, it creates less hackers.
Life, uh, finds a way.
Google's increasingly cavalier attitude towards security is concerning: 1) Kids WILL use this to bypass parental / school controls as soon as they learn about it 2) In some contexts (especially as high-stakes test settings, but also some military/prison/finance/medical/legal/etc. settings) this IS a direct security risk 3) Given the embedded browser is not secure, if a lot of kids do this, it WILL lead to someone exp…
What's different about this issue? That it gives us an opportunity to bash Google? And to make broad inferences about the company's supposed demise from a single anecdotal data point? Essentially every other company that attempts these kinds of controls will sooner or later find it bypassed, usually many times over...
TIL mobile JavaScript console https://eruda.liriliri.io/
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When I was a kid we managed to hack into my school's lab's computers to install Doom and Warcraft II. Good times.
> Doom and Warcraft II If that's all today's kids had access to, I wouldn't be worried about it either. I work with "average" kids today that have access to far more developmentally-damaging media, and I want the few kids that have parents that care enough to set up controls, to have a fighting chance.
I didn't mean my silly recollections there to be a way to handwave the concerns of people with parental controls nowadays. Those are important.
I just miss those simpler times. The most risque thing we got our hands on back then were low resolution porn clips. Perhaps some odd hentai AVI with mangled translation.
People used to be up in arms about something silly as Carmageddon being damaging to kid's mental health while truly awful stuff such as social media was brewing on the horizon.
This guy's experience reporting a bug to Google reminds me of mine: Me: Here's a bug in Google Sheets that exposes deleted content to third parties. Google: Not a bug. Working as expected, closing issue. Me: Really? I was personally harmed by this bug while using the application. Google: Actually, it is a bug but it's a longtime known issue, therefore you are not eligible for bug bounty. Closing issue.
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Can you visit arbitrary websites using such webviews? I never managed to. And IIRC it's rather difficult to set up a webview that allows multiple domains or URLs (but I'm no android dev, and the last time I had to fiddle with this, was years ago)
It's possible. I remember one app that opened a webview to their terms of use page, which somewhere had a link to a Google page, which I could use to go to Google search. So, no direct URL input, but you could go to any website indexed.
Side point: When you rent a Tesla, please do not sign into youtube. Subsequent renters can see your whole Google account (including family members, phone numbers etc). Or at least sign out before you return the car!
What makes this Tesla specific? This seems like pretty standard behavior on public computers or TVs in hotels.
Google's increasingly cavalier attitude towards security is concerning: 1) Kids WILL use this to bypass parental / school controls as soon as they learn about it 2) In some contexts (especially as high-stakes test settings, but also some military/prison/finance/medical/legal/etc. settings) this IS a direct security risk 3) Given the embedded browser is not secure, if a lot of kids do this, it WILL lead to someone exp…