• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    241·
    9 hours ago

    This raises an interesting issue: Should house guests expect to be given Wi-Fi access? I’ve personally never even asked for Wi-Fi when I go over to someone else’s house because frankly I don’t trust their network. I don’t know what “smart devices” are port scanning every other device or collecting MAC addresses, I don’t know if they’ve ever updated their router firmware and if it’s been infected by the numerous malware automatically scanning the internet for unpatched routers. Not worth it, I’d rather use mobile data or not access the internet until I go home. Also I don’t want Google or Cloudflare to know who my friends are and where they live by having my browser fingerprint show up on their IP.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      31 minutes ago

      This is a great example of someone who has a lot of fear in their life that stems from ignorance, but tries to pass it off as something else. But make no mistake, you have a large gap in knowledge, and that knowledge gap combined with the paranoia of what you read from “privacy advocates” means your life is much harder and more insecure then you realize.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      My guests get WiFi access to the internet when they ask. What they don’t get is WiFi access to our home systems network. When they don’t ask, I assume they’re just fine paying for their own cellular data.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      3·
      6 hours ago

      Guest Wi-Fi is common for that reason. I’ve got guest Wi-Fi set up so that guests can access the internet but they can’t access my LAN.

    • Venator@lemmy.nz
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I think most people would expect it, but only if you offer. Depends how expensive mobile data is where you live and if they can afford it…

      If someone offered it to you it’d probably be polite to just say no thanks and not bother to explain why their network probably isn’t secure 😅

  • Sigilos@ttrpg.network
    51·
    7 hours ago

    Roblox

    So your sister actively consents to her son being on a platform riddled with pedophiles and expects you to be complicit as well.

    You where nice, I would have told her she was a terrible parent, why, and then ask her to leave. I’ve become no-contact with toxic family over issues before, and I’ll do it again.

    • Bongles@lemmy.zip
      2·
      5 hours ago

      It’s trivial to prevent them from being able to chat with anyone else in roblox and if they’re under 13 it’s set to that by default. As far as I’m aware the main thing these pedophiles do is try to get your kid over to discord where they can get and send photos and videos. Just letting your kid play roblox doesn’t automatically make you a terrible parent.

      • Sigilos@ttrpg.network
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I agree, the average situation is certainly rife with more nuance. For example, my young ones play Minecraft, despite that being implicated as a vector used by pedophiles to find and groom victims. However, I long ago did like you have suggested and limited the online options and communications my kids can interact with, as well as using that as an opportunity to speak with them about why those protections where in place.

        My issue with Roblox is that as a company, they routinely downplay the role their platform plays in such crimes, and have actively prevented such activity from being stopped while taking no steps to filter or moderate such things from their end. Yes, parents need to do more then just hand a child a screen so they stop needing attention, but a platform that exploits predator usage is exploiting children.

        Now some parents may not be knowledgeable about this, and I can understand that “you don’t know what you don’t know”. However, a parent who chooses to sour a family holiday because the whim of their spawn was not bowed to is not, generally speaking, a good parent. The combination of this with the usage of a pedophile-supporting platform aimed at children while clearly not setting healthy boundaries with the child, are the reason I would say this person is a bad parent. It’s not one factor, its the culmination of multiple that result in this reasoning.

  • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    12 hours ago

    My dad picks up hobbies like other people pick up interesting stones at the beach. He got into home networking a few months ago and has since spun up an onion architecture of networks from least to most trusted. All IOT devices get segregated on their own individual networks and the secure core network has adblocking and tracking-blocking firewalls. He has like 3 guest wifi networks. All addressing is resolved with IPv6.

    His home, by the way, has one home computer, three phones, and two smart speakers. Twenty year old dumb TV. No smart appliances.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      My guest wifi network is automatically segregating (as default from Netgear). So, if three guests are on it, none can “see” the others, only the internet.

  • gray@lemmy.ml
    12·
    10 hours ago

    She should just have made a hotspot if it was that important…