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If the app on the kid's phone knows that the phone is registered in the UK, how would a VPN circumvent it?
by feurio 3mo ago
If the app on the kid's phone knows that the phone is registered in the UK, how would a VPN circumvent it?
- cjs_ac 3mo agoSuppose the user isn't using a device that leaks its location to any userland software that asks?
- feurio 3mo agoNot it's location.
- cjs_ac 3mo agoYou know perfectly well what I meant.
- feurio 3mo agoDoesn't sound like the kind of device that your average schoolkid has in their pocket?
- cjs_ac 3mo agoAre you the Sisyphus of goalposts or something?
- feurio 3mo agoI am willing to be educated; does the average schoolkid carry such a device? I suspect that the number of kids using not using an app on a device that is aware of its locality is a rounding error. Tesco* phones on some network's family plan must be 95th percentile. (* other high street retailers are available)
- Hizonner 3mo ago> I am willing to be educated; does the average schoolkid carry such a device? Yes. On at least Android phones, and I'm pretty sure also on iOS, location access is a user-controlled permission that's not necessarily granted to any given app. There always leaks, but are you going to require commercial software to play cat-and-mouse games to get around system security settings? And some, possibly most, "social media" can also be used without apps.
- everdrive 3mo agoThis would only work for anyone foolish enough to attempt to access content and services with their phone. You don't own your phone. It might has well be a company-owned device. "But everyone uses their phone all the time!" Yes, and everyone will be worse off for making the obviously worse choice.
- feurio 3mo ago"But everyone uses their phone all the time!" Kids do. Sure if they want to circumvent and go home and use Dad's laptop to cyberbully or send pictures of their wang they probably could ...