I’m currently stuck in a used bedroom infested with flies at the time of writing this.

My parents have decided to block internet whenever I try to move my PC back upstairs. Asking them wouldn’t work out because it usually falls on deaf ears.

A few days ago, they moved it without my knowledge, and I noticed that my folding table was gone from my bedroom.

I’m planning to set it back up again, but they might turn my internet off when they catch me. I’m trying to get a few ideas and create a plan to move my PC back upstairs.

I found a few tutorials on getting through parental controls, but the tutorials are done on Windows and parental controls are set up using TP-Link.

  • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    That is a weird whinge. Good on your parents for putting their foot down. If you show them some responsibility they will show you some trust.

    What on earth is a used bedroom? Do you not know how to clean your room?

  • lorty@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Even if you did, what would you do when your parents saw you using the internet after they’ve cut you out? There’s no special orogram for that.

  • RovingFox@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    What I would personally do is buy a device that can connected to wifi and hotspot at the same time. This can be a raspberry pi or a wifi router range extender.

    I would set the name and MAC address to match a device that is constantly connected, a smart TV or Alexa maybe.

    Then I would use this device connect to the internet.

    Everything works as usual and for those who monitor the network via Router settings, nothing looks different.

    Have fun pulling risky moves and maybe also learn something out of it.

    • glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.orgEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Deliberately duplicate a mac address, and worse, deliberately pick a device that’s definitely going to be online in the same network segment?

      At first I thought you were either trolling or profoundly ignorant.

      Then I remembered that wifi is CSMA, and thought, hang on… is this actually a genius idea? Has this user come up with a hack that no-one else knows about? So I tried it.

      It doesn’t work. I couldn’t even join.

      So no, you are either trolling or ignorant.

      Hers some discussion and links, for anyone interested: https://superuser.com/questions/1132935/duplicate-mac-on-a-wifi-network-problems

      • RovingFox@infosec.pub
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        10 months ago

        I think you are missing my point. The “pretending” device connects to router, while the “original” device connects to the pretending device. The 2 interfaces that share the same MAC don’t connect to the same network.

        The user also conncets to the pretending device. to hide their access to the router.

        • glue_snorter@lemmy.sdfeu.orgEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Ahhh, thanks! Please excuse my error - I am attempting to perform computation using a kilo of wet squidgy protein and fat.

  • Still@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    there’s two possibilities for this wifi blocking:

    1. it’s setup to only allow whitelisted devices, in this case you’re fucked, only option is to pretend to be some whitelisted device
    2. it’s a blacklist, in this case changing your mac address will make you appear to be a new device, anyone monitoring the device list could see the unknown device appear
    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      I know nobody likes a know-it-all. But FYI: The current suggestion is to call these allowlist and blocklist. I’m not sure how they’re called on the router. The terms have been out there for a few years already.