[stirner]

When I was young my parents installed a system-wide child filter for OS X called Safe Eyes that had tons of false positives (and more importantly, blocked online games). I didn't know much about computers but it drove me to learn how to install and configure Linux so that I could do what I wanted. Kids find a way.

[aidenn0]

My dad installed a menu launcher with password-locked parental controls for MS DOS. Within a week, I discovered that the configuration file (which I could open with word perfect), while mostly binary contained the passwords in plain text.

As an example of how not-sneaky I was as a kid, I immediately ran to my dad and showed him how I got the password.

[yummypaint]

My parents tried a similar thing on my system i had built in high school. I immediately reinstalled the os and secured root on all the networking hardware. We remained poised for mutually assured destruction until they dropped it.

[aidenn0]

Was this for content or time? As my kids approach HS age, I can't imagine trying to regulate what media they consume (though the quantity could indeed be a concern).