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MisterTea | 5 days ago

> When I was a kid, my parents installed Net Nanny on our home computer.

Putting up artificial walls is inviting someone to look behind them.

Back in 1999 I was attending a city university and their computer labs were a mix of older Pentium machines running Windows 98 secured by netnanny. They disabled floppy booting in the BIOS and password protected it. Thing is, the old Dell cases were real easy to pop open and pull the CMOS battery out. That killed the BIOS password so I was able to floppy boot the machine and rename netnanny.exe to nutnanny.exe and Win 98 ran unimpeded. When I was done I would rename the exe, reboot and go on about my day. Nice try, uni admins.

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