A Page From Australia's Cybersecurity Playbook: Pentesting Our Kids

David Braue, Editor-At-Giant for Cybercrime Journal, joined host Scott Schober in a current episode on the Cybercrime Journal Podcast to debate Australia’s world-first teen social media ban, which went into impact Dec. 10, 2025. Collectively, they focus on how the ban is sitting with teenagers and oldsters throughout the nation, the brand new guidelines platforms, together with TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat, should observe, and extra.

“Critics will say the social media ban is a toothless tiger as a result of teenagers are capable of simply circumvent the social media ban by scanning their mum’s or dad’s face,” Braue, a Melbourne, Australia-based award-winning know-how journalist, posted on LinkedIn.

“However simply take into consideration this for a second: now, to get onto social media, TEENS HAVE TO SCAN THEIR MUM’S OR DAD’S FACE, which suggests stated mum or dad not less than is aware of their youngster desires to get on-line and might begin conversations about what their youngster is doing and how one can take care of what they’re prone to discover there,” provides Braue.

“These mother and father may even have the ability to know precisely which websites their youngsters are on, and have some confidence their youngsters aren’t stumbling round within the Internet’s darkish corners with none oversight. Given what number of mother and father don’t know what their youngsters are doing on-line, even that may be a win for the brand new legal guidelines as a result of it lets mother and father truly mum or dad their youngsters.”

To place it one other manner, possibly what’s actually taking place in Australia is that oldsters are pentesting their youngsters. And possibly we must be too?

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