A couple of weeks ago we discovered a group of teens looking at porn on our catalog computers. The thing is, there should be no way they can access the internet on those computers. We clicked around the catalog and tried to figure out how they did it. Finally, we discovered that someone ELSE had figured out how to get on the internet and if you clicked on this arrow it would give up a page history. On this page history was a porn site that had been accessed by the original hackers and the word had apparently spread among the teens that this particular catalog computer had a direct line to this porn site. We still don't know how they originally got on the site. Our tech guys haven't figured it out.
I was telling my husband about this the other day and I said that no filters, banning, rules, punishments or anything will keep a teen away from porn if they truly want to get to it. This is just another example of that. In some sense you have to admire their cleverness and fortitude. If only they would apply it somewhere else.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Teen Hackers
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Your husband is right. Teenage boys will find a way to get porn, even if they have to go to the library to get it. I'd try to find a way to substitute the "magic page" they have with some sort of insanely loud alarm that blares out something like "I'M A PERVERT AND I'M LOOKING AT PORN!!!"
The first victim will certainly spread the word that the gig is up.
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