WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, YOUNG MAN? WHY WERE YOU IGNORING MY CALLS? checks GPS log, sees school does child's homework for him applies to college for him goes on job interviews for him
you forgot, wipes butt for him
Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
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Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#22Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services. Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like text…
The app is only available in the US appstore for now.
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Also, going to be funny when they work out how to uninstall it.
Hell, uninstalling is mild. Set the parent phone to a child phone and vice versa, all you need is to guess that password. I wonder if it's the same as their email account?
From their FAQ, looks like that would need you to deregister and reregister the phone. Still, as in my experience most parents (mine and others I'm familiar with) leave their phones lying around without a password so much of the time (or else likely use weak ones such as their date of birth or similar), that isn't exactly hard.
I've also accidentally shoulder surfed dozens of random people's (patterns on android are particularly easy as by default it shows the full trace; ios7 is also easy as the buttons are very high contrast) where I had zero intention to just because they aren't careful about who can see the screen when they unlock.
Of course, given the poor security of so many mobile apps, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a way to reverse engineer the protocol to lock a 'parent' phone. Then, of course, the child can feign ignorance with "but I thought that wasn't possible".
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#24Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services. Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like text…
Hilariously, there's actually nothing stopping the kid phoning whoever they want. It's controlled by a contact group on the phone, that the child device can edit at will. Step 1 would be to add all friends to that group.
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#25I haven't tried it, but isn't this trivial to disable by just booting into safe mode and uninstalling the app?
Yep. With root, you can even just disable administrators without allowing them to hijack the attempt.
Actually, letting apps hijack the normal disabling of their administrative functions is a massive vuln, as then any piece of malware can do that to prevent it from being removed.
The funny thing is, Android's safe mode isn't that well publicised (I knew it existed, but would have to look up how to enter it), but if apps like this ever proliferated, it definitely would become well known. See how in the UK, since TPB got censored, there are now literally hundreds of reverse proxies available, and since the government pushed 'opt-out' censorship, there are now dozens of proxies explicitly marketed for defeating them, and more and more sites are switching to use TLS.
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#26Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services. Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like text…
The app is only available in the US appstore for now.
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Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#27In my experience many adults (meaning everyone over 35 at this point) seem to have an irrational attachment to phone calls, when texting or email would suffice or be better. This is just a manifestation of that mentality. If you encourage your kid to text you it's much more likely they'll communicate, largely because it can be done quickly and discreetly.
Given the problems I've heard about with app store purchases from parents in this target market there's zero chance of this actually working, and I'd be surprised if any parent in the target group even believes it would work either.
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#28Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services. Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like text…
The app is only available in the US appstore for now.
Because restricting to GeoIP really works well, right? Oh wait, even many users know how to use a proxy to get Iplayer/Pandora/Netflix from another country - there are even dedicated products for this purpose.
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#29Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services. Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like text…
Just as an aside, I dont know about other countries but both 911 and 112 work in the UK.
Re: Ignore No More – lock your child's device until they call you back
#30Danger: the front page says the child will always be able to call "first responders," but the FAQ reveals that 911 is the only built-in one which the child cannot change. If you live outside the US, 911 may not work, leaving your child unable to dial emergency services. Adding 112 and 999 to the list would help, but perhaps it's better to just let the kid call whomever they like, and just block "fun" things like text…
911 works in the UK, I imagine it's the same for most to cater for those a little too engrossed in US films/TV