It’s not really a vulnerability in the sense that it leads to any sort of system compromise. It’s definitely a design flaw in whatever features they added to the OS, but not necessarily something that warrants a huge investigation.
Is bypassing the lock screen a security bug?
Like it's a frustrating response to this valid bug report, but it's not really a security risk here, either. You don't actually bypass the lock screen or anything.
Also other features are effected like kiosk mode etc. The implications are unclear but could conceivably be quite serious in some scenarios.
Is it? That's not demonstrated nor claimed in the linked article.
> I think it really is and could have serious safeguarding issues.
Elaborate. What's the security risk from your child using a browser after the parental control timeout expired? It's annoying that the automatic limits didn't fully happen, but data isn't compromised as a result, either.
No skin in the game, but this is very similar to the old Win95 "About... Help... $BROWSER" style bypasses.
Could you tell me more about this?
And being educated != being in jail.
But honestly, maybe re-read the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
These are parental controls. They aren't working in this one specific way. That's. The. Scope.