Parental locks, amirite?
In case any of you have found yourselves in this predicament, LockPicking Lawyer's new video just dropped, and it shows you how to get rid of that pesky parental lock on your console.
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Physical security, very often overlooked aspect of information security.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

This video was a coincidence. I told my mother yesterday that this obscure lock exists… and then LPL featured it!

Parental controls – nowadays electronic – usually don't work. Even if they are secure, they fail addressing the underlying problem. Upbringing and educations is a hard job – nothing you can outsource to an electronic babysitter (in this case mechanical).

This lock has the dignity of age. But that's it.

 

[Flame]

damn it, you telling me all this time i couldnt play my old NES becuase my dad forgot the code. all i had to do was look up a youtube video on how?

time to play some of my LJN games !

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Physical security, very often overlooked aspect of information security.

True. Physical access is more or less administrative access (though they are trying their best to ruin that simple equation with locked smartphones).

In this case: If a child can't be trusted, the console (or the power adapter, or the controllers) should be stored in the parent's room. It doesn't need a specialized lock that could even damage the expensive console (I surely would not put that on an NES nowadays, not even for trying).

And do you d*mn f…ing parenting job! Bring your kid to the point where neither is needed!

 

[rcpd]

That seems like such a useless product when parents could (mine did) just take the controllers or power cord with them to work.

 

[KleinesSinchen]

Medimops.de was slow once again.

But now, with a few days delay, I can drop a picture here. A nonsense product going into the same direction, this time for the PlayStation 2.



Not much to say but facepalm

I must be insane for buying such… and I do not even have children.