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Comment by brianstrimp | Hacker News Reader

> So, for example, I could view what they googled and when, if I wanted to anyway.

How old are your kids and do they know you are doing this? There surely is a difference between a 5- and a 15-year old. But if they are not at all aware they are constantly being watched like that, man that's some serious breach of trust. This full-on surveillance could damage your kids for life.

I'm so glad this kind of tech hardly existed when I was a kid 30 years ago.

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This tech existed 30 years ago, just wasn't packaged up for easy deployment. As late as 2012 you could MITM people in your network, even without being the person managing the router. ARP poisoning and mitmproxy or just some intelligent reverse proxy, you could pick up the cookies, URLs, and POST data for all the requests in the network.

Sure, a computer nerd dad could have somehow surveilled me dialling into some BBS with my 28.8 kbps modem, but the number of people in the world that actually did this to their kids can probably be counted on one hand, and they were all psychos.

MITM-ing https google searches with a custom root cert today, man, you don't want to leave your kids any privacy? Do you also have hidden cameras in their bedroom? That's roughly on the same level.

Yet people are fine about their employers doing it

Because that's with awareness and consent? That's a significant difference.

This is 100% the difference.

That said I think the bar for telling people how to raise their kids is super super high.

The internet of 1995 is very different from the internet of today.

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