• ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I knew someone who had a parent

    • place a recording device in their room
    • installed spyware on their computer
    • read their diary
    • made them sign behavior contracts (They were actually a good child)

    You are safe to assume they had a difficult time adjusting as an adult.

    So no, not normal.

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      That shit isn’t normal. I think parents doing minor poking around from time to time isn’t abnormal, especially if there is real concern about the child.

      TMI but I have the experience of my parents finding out I was suicidal because they looked around. I wasn’t about to say anything to them about it. Or anyone else. I was a sad and angry teen. They looked out for me as best they could.

      However, I never knew for certain that they had until I was much older. I suspected a couple times but they didn’t drop hints or outright say anything. Just adjusted how they were raising me.

        • Lol I’m currently like experimenting with steganography.

          Like a very simple example is say:

          First letter of word is A-M = bit 0
          First letter of word is N-Z = bit 1

          Then count syllabels:

          Odd number of syllabels = bit 0
          Even number of syllabels = bit 1

          So this simple method can encode 2 bits with one word.

          So, write this ciphertext as a free verse poem.

          Write something very innocuous like… say, about nature

          You need 5 bits to denote a 32 character space, enough for the english a-z

          So: 5 bits = 1 English letter

          You’d need 18 “cipher words” (aka: the words in the “poem”) to denote 36 bits, enough to write a “fuckyou”, which costs 35 bits (cuz 5 bits x 7 letters = 35 bits)

          Doubt parents will find out unless they work for the NSA.

          I mean, no parent actually ban their kids from writing poetry, right? It looks education related after all.

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            2 days ago

            That is pretty smart, but that parent would have founds poems suspicious. This is the same parent that said their kid had somehow convinced all their teachers to lie about them going to chess club to cover for her, because of course they were outside being up to no good.