My sister and brother-in-law are renting the top of a home (from a senior missionary couple out serving) and two young missionaries live in the basement. I guess the other day the missionaries asked them for their wifi password. They explained that the church had given them an iPad for missionary work purposes. My sister-in-law and hubby were very skeptical and so called the mission president who confirmed that they were piloting a new program. I'm sure they have filters and monitor what is being looked at, but I wonder how long this will last before porn or anti-Mormon literature is found.

I think that the iPad has special apps. I doubt that they have access to an actual web browser, however. There might be loop-holes... like at the mtc, we found a way to get to youtube, and I used it to play calming classical and electronic music while doing my language studies. It wasn't quite obedient, but I needed it to keep sane.

Please forgive me for saying as they are probably both pretty wonderful folk, but wasn't that more than just a little snitchy of them to race to the mission president with news of possible contraband? I mean, JEEZUS! Or maybe they were given some sort of rent break in exchange for "keeping an eye" on two otherwise ault tenants of said basement. (?) Dang.

I wonder if the church is also giving them sani wipes to protect the LDS investment in an Ipad.

I am guessing some seed will be spilled upon them, when the filters are cracked.

For LDS missionary lurkers, check out tubegals or pornhub.

Some tech savvy rebels will have fun with this.

Good on them.

Many elders will be reading conference and planning tracting routes in locked bathrooms now.

One of the HUGE things to notice with this story:

1) 19 year ADULTS told some other adults that they were going to access the Internet.
2) Other adults felt the need to tattle-tale to their mission president.

What is wrong with this picture?

^ agreed. That's what disturbed me.

I think that if the church wants the missionaries to have internet access, then the church should pay for it.

My first reaction too was "you told on them?" But they are very over the top TBM so it didn't surprise me. Then I wondered how long before it was taken away for inappropriate content.

iPads do have a web browser called Safari. Using it right now. Not sure how easy it is to locked down an iPad since I have not tried.

My guess is that the filters were breached within hours if not minutes.

This small adjustment made by geriatric, corporate LDS leadership could create more apostasy than any other incident in the history of the LDS corporation.

The contrived shame caused by LDS Inc in their weaponization of human sexuality, and their artificial attempted control of natural human behaviors will cost them dearly.

Porn is less important for the LDS company to filter than evidence documenting the fraudulent LDS empire.

We will be seeing more of those missionaries here.



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I don't trust them a bit.

My guess is that the missionaries are 100% more tech savy than
their mission presidents and can do things with an ipad they never even considered!

When I recently visited, the sister missionaries on Temple Square had Blackberries or similar gadgets alongside their scriptures.

The missionaries will find ways around this. The young people always know more about technology than old people (i.e. all church leaders).

Like when I was at school, it was the students teaching the teachers how to do things with technology half the time. And in terms of web access, we had things restricted, but eventually the students would always find ways to get round the filters. Then the school ICT people would improve the filters, and a few months later the entire school would know how to avoid them again.

It'll probably be the same in the mission field, although to be fair, I bet a lot of missionaries won't bother trying to do anything since they're so obedient.

They do need to involve the Internet more in missionary work though. I can in the near future missionaries having pages on social networking sites, and monitoring the activity of everything the investigators do

One aspect of this I had not thought of until just now is that most of these new techs are equipped with "Latitude" type programs that record every step you take.

This will put leadership in the position to quietly compare activity reports submitted by the missionaries against an unassailable (sp) record of their whereabouts at all times.

Watch out Young People, your days of fudging reports are OVER. Big brother is really finally here, and he's watching YOU!

Latitude can be easily breached by either turning it off, or leaving the Ipad at home while tracting.

Then the question becomes, "why did you turn off a measure put in place for your safety?" OR, "Have you really stayed home all day?"
Easier to just leave it hidden under a bus seat somewhere and pick it up later in day.

and I didn't want it lost, stolen or damaged. I wrote everything on a piece of paper and entered the data when I got home." <-- If that's what they're supposed to do with these things.

They can turn off the locator and say they left the tablets at home and still go surfing at McDonald's. Safari allows for private browsing, or they can put Mozilla on those things and get even more secrecy add-ons. If they are using the iPads that come with a data plan, they should only surf off of wifi and not cell phone towers, and they need to stay the hell off of FB.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/28/2013 12:23AM by Beth.

i say, let em have em!! i've always regarded the internet and all this hand-held, immediate access info as the anti-christ, so give it to em! and they'll immediately log into fb..i actually saw this a couple months ago; my childhood friend's son just started a mission and he and i are/were (i left fb a month ago) fb friends, i was shocked to see a post from him whilst on his mission. he supposedly had permission to do so but i was like..wtf??