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0 pointsnykolasz6y ago0 comments

I work at a k12 school and I am involved with many IT admins from other schools.

Some schools already started to block Firefox from being installed because it was being used as a "VPN" by some elementary students to access porn - at school. Guess what this VPN was? Just DNS over HTTPS.

There is a fine line between your ISP and local network operators that NEED to apply some security policies to their traffic. Even Google offers "Safe Search" for schools and libraries that removes porn content.

Unfortunately, on our school network, we also allow BYOD, so we will have to have some strict rules to block DoH, the same way we block proxies and vpns.

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Spivak6y ago

Look I sympathize with all the k12 network operators that have to apply all these brain-dead content filtering policies -- I used to be one. But surely you recognize that someone external to my device that can inspect, modify, compromise the security of, or block my connection to any part of the public internet is the enemy right?

You're free to do whatever you like with devices that you own and you're also free to have an acceptable use policy on your network but breaking security and privacy to accomplish it is the exact wrong way to go about it.

In my ideal world school BYOD devices would either not be allowed at or be given a private single-device VLAN with a direct unfiltered connection upstream, and made clear in policy that the school doesn't own, support, or control any aspect of them. No different whatsoever than students using their cellular connection.

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0 pointsnykolasz6y ago0 comments

I work at a k12 school and I am involved with many IT admins from other schools.

Unfortunately, on our school network, we also allow BYOD, so we will have to have some strict rules to block DoH, the same way we block proxies and vpns.

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Spivak6y ago

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