Think like the NSA or CIA type of stuff
Assume they are kinda the helicopter parenting type.
Just curious… cuz maybe I have an idea for storywriting… maybe…
Just not tell them things? They’ve undoubtedly got other things to worry about, and I doubt their superiors would be impressed with them bringing the Awesome Might of The Gubermint down upon their offspring.
“just don’t tell them things” bro you are soooo naive
Do you assume secret services are constantly spying on their kids?
Idk, I was just wondering like… what if my parents had worked in the NSA, like they could probably pull up my search history.
Cuz they like to cross boundaries like that.
Well, parents can already do that. I think the basic solution is still a VPN. Can’t read encripted traffic. Tor would be tempting to say, but a lot of nodes are owned by the government still would be better than nothing. Other than that, use strong passwords, set the browsers to delete cookies on close, use a password manager.
In a functioning society accessing private information on someone else would be subject to a proper review system with audits to prevent anyone from accessing information they don’t have a very good (legal) reason to have.
So yeah it’d probably be possible in the USA, but in other places they definitely couldn’t just pull up your search history.
Even in the US it would be punishable. Morality aside, using a billion dollar NSA malware on a person carries a real risk of getting the malware caught. The NSA might be willing to wear that risk for a high value person, but not for some employees kid.
Purely on a misuse of a valuable asset it would be punishable.
I can’t remember if it was local or national news, but I believe last month or so, a police officer was charged with using work resources to creep on his ex.
So, it’s certainly possible, but they could get in a lot of trouble if word got out.
Generally speaking, it’s illegal to use government access for personal reasons. Now if you are talking about civilian parents:
Put TailsOS on a thumb drive. No traces left of your activities once the drive is unplugged.
Watch for basic consumer level spyware on your smartphone.
No vpn. Use Tor either through TailOS on a laptop/desktop or Orbot and Tor browser on a phone.
Don’t talk in your sleep.
Get comfortable lying.
One of my college friends, his dad was an nsa agent. Truth is, he didn’t want to do that shit at home so he didn’t. When I was an accountant, my wife balanced the checkbook so I didn’t have to be an accountant at home. That kind of thing.
Hypothetically, if they are truly professional and in operations rather than being analysts, etc., they would leave work at work but basically be too exhausted to truly helicopter-parent at home. I’m projecting a bit though, because once you become a parent you are exhausted beyond belief (substitute “I” for all those “you”s, heh)
Depends on the generation of the parent too, I think (have they kept up with modern surveillance technologies?). If you haven’t watched the TV show “The Americans” it could be interesting. Set in the 80s but there’s two kid/teen children of agents in it, so secrets kind of start going both ways
So I’m not an agent but i work in IT.
If i were inclined I would snoop traffic going over the home network probably with a packet capture with the ability to decrypt ssl traffic. So I would have tools installed on your computer/device to make that easy. This would amount for computers/ tablets and other devices that don’t have LTE/cellular connections.
To make sure you didn’t use the tor and other end to end encryption I would block those protocols on the network.
To make sure you were not going through other networks/hotspots I would monitor and get alerted to any new ssid’s at the house then blast the frequency that ssid is broadcasting on to make it unusable.
To make sure your phone was always monitored I would put parental controls and backdoor remote access and logging.
That covers a decent amount of situations I can think of off the top of my head.
Want to circumvent this? Use internet at the friends house on a secret device that your parents will never find out about so keep it away from your house. Use online personas, don’t use your real anything online.
Thank you for this insight, I’m SOOO glad that my parents are tech-illiterate. Can you imagine how fucked if mom worked in actual IT? Oh fuck, all the porn sites¹… 😭 (very conservative household, “porn = bad”, and “if you touch your [penis] too much, you’ll lose the ability to have children”, wtf mom? For context: my family is from China and porn is literally illegal there)
¹I don’t really watch anymore… depression resulting from decades of household infighting
If you are worried about just the sites you go to, use a VPN. If you don’t it is a lot easier than listed above to just see sites you go to. It’s a simple traffic analysis, most routers you buy at best buy will do that for you out of the box. Use a VPN. And always flush your dns cache when you are done. Even on VPN/incognito mode.
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My other post would allow them to see what you were doing on the site.
My dad was NSA. Why does that make him any different regarding privacy at home than any other dad? The experience of having an NSA dad is that he doesn’t talk about work, and otherwise is just a dad. Any issues I had with my dad are utterly and completely unrelated to him working for the government. My dad was fine in terms of having privacy.
You don’t get access to anything you’re not working with and if you do have access and they found out you used it to spy on your kids then you’re probably getting fired.
and if you do have access and they found out you used it to spy on your kids then you’re probably getting fired.
I mean that’s what they tell us, and they do a token firing for this shit every now and then, but every PO I’ve known has done blatantly illegal background checks on people for shits and giggles (not just digging through PACER for fun, using tools you and I can’t access) and felt comfortable enough doing them in front of me when I barely knew them.
