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   Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:30:42 JST Ernie Smith

   • Tedium

   Despite many, many (many!) complaints about it, attempts to block or filter the internet keep coming up. Why do we keep doing this?

   https://tedium.co/2025/08/26/internet-content-filters-history/

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:30:39 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @feld @ernie i was grounded as a teenager, i would just use my sister's laptop with a linux live usb lmfao
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:30:40 JST feld

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     @ernie that was me. Everything they did I figured a way around it. Internet filters, local PC software to block access to stuff, Deep Freeze (though that was a stolen password...)
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     Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:30:41 JST Ernie Smith

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     “A teenager with a desire to work around a restriction is a hell of a pentester.”

     https://tedium.co/2025/08/26/internet-content-filters-history/

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:54:07 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • feld
     @gray @feld @ernie i dont know when they were first a thjng
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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:54:08 JST gray

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     @mischievoustomato @feld @ernie man if we had bootable usb drives back when my family got our first computer I’d have used that all the time
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:54:21 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • Wiz
     @feld @gray @ernie @Wiz
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 01:54:22 JST feld

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @gray @mischievoustomato @ernie They had the BIOS locked down at school so I couldn't boot my live CDs, but then I found the network admin's password printed on a paper (along with everyone else's passwords) and it was the same for the BIOS, Deep Freeze, his network logins ...
     
     Password: ultrawiz
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     Wiz (wiz@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 02:31:28 JST Wiz

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @mischievoustomato @feld @ernie @gray man, I cannot tell you how many fights I've had over BIOS passwords. It really makes every single bulit of security moot if the BIOS isn't locked
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     gray (gray@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 02:32:16 JST gray

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     • Johnny Peligro
     @feld @mischievoustomato @ernie Just like in Wargames lmao
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     Ernie Smith (ernie@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 28-Aug-2025 02:38:19 JST Ernie Smith

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     • Johnny Peligro

     @feld @gray @mischievoustomato shout-out to teenage pentesters everywhere

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