Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools
I have this saved in my notes. Forgot from where I saved it from, but it’s so accurate:<p>&quot;I work in the cyber security industry, and I can tell you over the years, I&#x27;ve seen kids - including my own - do things that first-world government teams and crack white hat groups could not have done any better. Give up now.<p>There is no app, no operating system, no proxy, scanner or firewall, and no setting that will ever defeat a determined kid. Plus, they work in groups, and are able to coordinate even better than their adult counterparts to find and disseminate new hacks. It&#x27;s an arms race that cannot be won with technology. You find a setting, they find a workaround. Apple updates, they find a new weakness.<p>Take their phones. Put them in a box. Sit on the box and guard it. Maybe buy a Faraday bag or something. Watch them cry and talk about how they&#x27;ll be social outcasts and their friends will mock them, or moan about how they need it for school to check the Facebook page their teacher posts assignments to. Turn a deaf ear. Know that you are helping them just like our parents were when they made us eat vegetables (which you know, are actually pretty darned good - thanks, Mom). &quot;