Air Proxy+13 year old brother=grrrrrr

Don't get mad, point him down the right path and encourage his interest. There are more than enough articles around concerning ethical hacking etc.

If he continues to learn unaided and from dubious sources he will probably end up as a script kiddie. You could potentially change this by introducing him to programming things for himself.
 
Saetia said:
Don't get mad, point him down the right path and encourage his interest. There are more than enough articles around concerning ethical hacking etc.

If he continues to learn unaided and from dubious sources he will probably end up as a script kiddie. You could potentially change this by introducing him to programming things for himself.
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Leave it to the seasoned pros more like.
 
My school is locked down pretty tight, pretty much nothing to benefit me would work, but in future i will log into my ftp and download since they have pretty speedy internet.
 
If all he's trying to do is get round a proxy and gain access/(hack(term used very lightly) to facebook, then i'd say thats pretty good by 13yr old standards!

ps - webmarshal does pretty well at blocking proxy sites
 
back in the old days at secondary school. we used to use a website called safeweb. when the headmaster found out due to a grass it was put on the black list :( most of us back then were playing MUDS though.. so we didnt really need a proxy.
 
Wow. Occasionally I'll see a thread in GD that stuns me, some adults on here seem to be incredibly sheltered and naive. The worlds moving on, boys of 13 are doing completely different things than you did when you were 13, there's no point in trying to dig your heels in, it's not going to help or work.

I don't really see what the OPs brother did wrong, all he did was show you what he had learned to do, that shows a good level of trust if you ask me. Sounds like a decent boy.
 
Energize said:
Other than accessing his email account and reading private emails?
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Fair enough, I didn't see that particular post. That would pee me off as well for sure, however he is a thirteen year old boy, annoying the hell out of the rest of your family is pretty much your job at that age, testing your boundaries etc. it's part of growing up.

Yeah it might be shocking how easy it is to gain access to online, password protected accounts like this but it's hardly news.

And all this stuff about his aspergers seems really off to me, it's almost like the OP is 'getting back' at his brother for looking at his personal stuffs by spreading something like that on a forum... like I say, he's 13, stuff like this is normal.
 
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Makunouchi said:
Fair enough, I didn't see that particular post. That would pee me off as well for sure, however he is a thirteen year old boy, annoying the hell out of the rest of your family is pretty much your job at that age, testing your boundaries etc. it's part of growing up.
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and have you ever considered that parents resisting this is also part of growing up ?

You knew that stuff was wrong because your parents were always fighting you over it and trying to get you to not do it.

yes they didn't succeed but that's not the point. Would things be different if kids were left to do anything they wanted and parents just thought "they're only being kids" ?

without a doubt i'd say.
 
It's his brother though... it's completely different. When my older brother tried to tell me not to do anything I'd just make it my sole purpose in life to do it again :D

But you're right, the OP should probably be speaking to his parents not us.
 
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