• gedhrel@lemmy.world
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      41 minutes ago

      The neighbours’ seven-year-old suggested using a VPN to get around age checks. I don’t know if he knows what one is, but he’s definitely seen adverts for them.

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      2 hours ago

      It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:

      “Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”

      It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.