So, if the system still doesn’t know who she is, does that mean that Kiro gets free access to the web without extending her sentence? She’d better hope Darien doesn’t realize that…
Not quite. Every outgoing and incoming message is vetted. So you could keep updated on pop culture, but not, say, tell someone what’s going on at camp.
I guess the system can identify Kiro just fine, it just doesn’t know her name yet and is programmed to announce the name rather than, say, and ID number.
This is why when my kids get old enough I’m teaching them a basic steganographic cypher, so they can still communicate when kidnapped. Something like “If you mention uncle mike, homemade pie or football, check every 5th world to get the real message”
Or something even simpler. “Hi, everyone! Let’s play! Since Enid naturally doesn’t look at what y’all entered, recap: some angry dude commissioned overeager ogre killers in El Segundo…”
If this was a Windows box, it would be easy to circumvent any lock-downs the admins have put into place.
Unfortunately this seems to be a Mac. You’d need a wizard to make it useable as a computer to begin with.
That they bothered to put up a notification that you are being monitored speaks volumes though.
Routing all traffic through a proxy for review would be easy. (Except real-time traffic like for FPSs, RTSs, and MMORPGs. That would just have to be blocked.)
A system that re-writes AJAX apps in flight to add alerts is not so trivial, would need constant maintenance whenever a site changes a semicolon in their code, and would also be fairly easy to work around, so worse than useless for censorship.
But that seems to be what they went with. So it is a safe bet that practically none of the traffic is actually reviewed.
> Unfortunately this seems to be a Mac. You’d need a wizard to make it useable as a computer to begin with.
Oh har har.
> So it is a safe bet that practically none of the traffic is actually reviewed.
Unless they’ve got some kind of superfast advanced AI behind the scenes, maybe? That or just a legion of very capable programmers and monitors. Either way, whoever’s running this place must have some deep pockets.
I put it in a comment on an earlier page, but why not here as well: for close-enough-to-real-time, with minimal labour involved, just use a keylogger and a whitelist running locally. Then for things like fb where the delay and the maintenance can be accepted, go semi-automated and review manually what you need to.
Still, some depth of pocket is required, but we’re not talking leagues of high-pay people or extravagant computer power.
So, if the system still doesn’t know who she is, does that mean that Kiro gets free access to the web without extending her sentence? She’d better hope Darien doesn’t realize that…
Not quite. Every outgoing and incoming message is vetted. So you could keep updated on pop culture, but not, say, tell someone what’s going on at camp.
I guess the system can identify Kiro just fine, it just doesn’t know her name yet and is programmed to announce the name rather than, say, and ID number.
This is why when my kids get old enough I’m teaching them a basic steganographic cypher, so they can still communicate when kidnapped. Something like “If you mention uncle mike, homemade pie or football, check every 5th world to get the real message”
Or something even simpler. “Hi, everyone! Let’s play! Since Enid naturally doesn’t look at what y’all entered, recap: some angry dude commissioned overeager ogre killers in El Segundo…”
…sad cookies?
Locking down a system completely is very VERY hard. I am sure she can find a way around the safeguards.
Depends how tech savvy she is. She could brick phones but what she was doing was more script kiddy stuff, not code slinging.
If this was a Windows box, it would be easy to circumvent any lock-downs the admins have put into place.
Unfortunately this seems to be a Mac. You’d need a wizard to make it useable as a computer to begin with.
That they bothered to put up a notification that you are being monitored speaks volumes though.
Routing all traffic through a proxy for review would be easy. (Except real-time traffic like for FPSs, RTSs, and MMORPGs. That would just have to be blocked.)
A system that re-writes AJAX apps in flight to add alerts is not so trivial, would need constant maintenance whenever a site changes a semicolon in their code, and would also be fairly easy to work around, so worse than useless for censorship.
But that seems to be what they went with. So it is a safe bet that practically none of the traffic is actually reviewed.
> Unfortunately this seems to be a Mac. You’d need a wizard to make it useable as a computer to begin with.
Oh har har.
> So it is a safe bet that practically none of the traffic is actually reviewed.
Unless they’ve got some kind of superfast advanced AI behind the scenes, maybe? That or just a legion of very capable programmers and monitors. Either way, whoever’s running this place must have some deep pockets.
I put it in a comment on an earlier page, but why not here as well: for close-enough-to-real-time, with minimal labour involved, just use a keylogger and a whitelist running locally. Then for things like fb where the delay and the maintenance can be accepted, go semi-automated and review manually what you need to.
Still, some depth of pocket is required, but we’re not talking leagues of high-pay people or extravagant computer power.
Hm. I wonder if there’s some way to send text messages or email through HTTP headers?…