[mythtv-users] Parental Controls -- Time of Viewing

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Not to draw too long a bow here, but you may be interested to note that in risk and hazard control, engineering controls are deemed to be more effective than administration (training) controls.

Good engineering controls, sure.

But not to remove the arrows from your quiver, but engineering
controls that are trivial to circumvent, and have a high
positive return to circumvent, are often considered some
of the most useless (and sometimes, dangerous) controls
to put in place no matter the optics of putting them in
place (although, if ones goal is a check mark in a box
of risk mitigation (as all too many of these exercises are),
rather than actual mitigation, then you get the points).
Higher fences that one can simply walk 20 meters around
is not a control.  A computer where you have to enter the
password on the post-it note on the bottom of the keyboard
is not a control.

Since the (usual) administrative mitigation of firing the
person for intentional violation of engineering controls
does not work well in this case (most jurisdictions have
laws against throwing the child to the street (although
there was the recent story about some parents that
staged a kidnapping to teach their child a lesson)),
the shared agreement and understanding of the
administrative controls end up being important in the
actual implementation.