One of our daughters is moving up into a new school. As part of this transition there is a lot of paperwork to fill out. I could rant that in 2021 why is there 25 pages or more of physical papers i need to fill out instead of some online form. I could however this post isn’t about that. Within that paperwork is a document that I need to sign called the “Acceptable Usage Policy for Parents”. It relates to technology and social media.
In theory i like the idea of the document. It outlines what us as parents should be doing and not doing related to our kids, other kids and the internet. The document is written for people of all levels of technical experience. That is why when i read the section that starts with “I understand that whilst home networks are much less secure than school ones…” i could not stop laughing. I thought it was very cute they thought their network was more secure than most people’s houses. For one thing with so many people and devices coming and going from their network i doubt that statement is true for most people. It is laughable in relation to my home network.
I am not even a network security expert. I know most of my non-tech friends think I am however I am no where even close. The last time i logged onto a firewall that wasn’t my own must have been 2006. Still yeah sorry school that I won’t say its name, no you are not more secure than home networks. I wouldn’t even think of joining your network without a VPN.
Thanks for turning a morning of filling out boring forms into an entertaining blog post though!
Note the photo is unrelated to this post. I needed something “techie” as the default photo for this. I took the photo of my iBook circa 1999 a week or so ago when i powered it up to check it still works. It does.
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