Internet filtering for children?

**Hitcher** · 7th February 2013, 17:07

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/block-i...hield-service/

**Headbanger** · 7th February 2013, 17:36

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I somehow suspect that won't help calm a mother...

I might try opendns on myself first, and see how easy it is to circumvent, or how it behaves.

Too funny.

You witnessed children on the internet?, looked at the sites they use?

**SMOKEU** · 7th February 2013, 18:21

Kids should also be encouraged to watch porn, that's how I learned about secks when I was 10 years old. Redtube and Youporn (among others) are a wealth of information.

**p.dath** · 7th February 2013, 18:30

I particularly like the free version of Norton Online Family.
https://onlinefamily.norton.com/

One of the reasons I like it is because you can set time limits across a group of computers.

**Hitcher** · 7th February 2013, 18:36

Smart kids, left unsupervised, will soon find ways around web filters.

**bluninja** · 7th February 2013, 19:06

You could just download a list of 'naughty' sites and add them to the Hosts file. Simple and cheap...and provided they can't edit the hosts file means they have to find sites or proxies not on the list.

I used to have to secure a 6th form college (16-18 year olds) network. Kids are sneaky, but they forget all the grumpy old bastards were kids once...and IT types tend to never grow up. Apart from finding new IP adreeses or sites that weren't yet blacklisted, most just went looking for unblocked proxies. Top 10 site hits showed the new proxies each day...then you blocked them and watched the monitor screen turn red till they went to the next proxy on the list...which you then blocked...and so on...until you then locked out their accounts and made them come round pay their fine and sign to say they wouldn't do it again. After a few had been suspended and fined or stood down the rest behaved, till the next term. Any who accessed porn sites without proxies were found and suspended....sadly having accessed porn, male students had a flow of blood from head to penis and kept hitting the sites instead of working...easy to spot if you know what to look for.

The clever ones surfed porn at home as their parents didn't know how to lock it down and couldn't track what they were up to.

Best idea is to make sure the kids surf in the same room you are sitting. It's cheap and effective ...only problem is when they go to a mates house

**Headbanger** · 7th February 2013, 19:09

Originally Posted by bluninja

You could just download a list of 'naughty' sites and add them to the Hosts file. Simple and cheap...and provided they can't edit the hosts file means they have to find sites or proxies not on the list.

all 900 million of them or just the 200 000 most popular?

**bluninja** · 7th February 2013, 19:16

Originally Posted by Headbanger

all 900 million of them or just the 200 000 most popular?

Just used to get a list of 500,000 (which was about all XP could take in it's host file) and refresh monthly.

**Hughsie** · 7th February 2013, 19:24

There are two main way's, both of which have problems;
If you block websites via keywords then you have the problem of blocking educational information with said 'naughty' words.
The other way is to block via web addresses but the problem there is websites are created quicker than you can block, also proxies will bypass this.
The only other option I can think of is blocking web addresses progressively, by this I mean you check his/her history every so often and block the websites there parents do not approve of. I know it's easy to delete your history at browser level but most people do not know how to delete there history at the modem/router level, or even use a tracking program.
I'm getting a bit overboard now but you may also be able to use a remote access program to allow the parents to check on what is being accessed at any time, these come in different shapes and sizes from the standard windows programs to trojan styled programs. (Google will further educate on these)

After all that I still think education about what to do and what not to do on the internet needs to be the main point as we all know kids will do everything there told not to do unless they know why they shouldn't do it.

**Headbanger** · 7th February 2013, 19:27

Make sure you block google so the kids don't spend 3 seconds getting around all that useless junk.

**Akzle** · 7th February 2013, 22:27

Originally Posted by bluninja

I used to have to secure a 6th form college (16-18 year olds) network. Kids are sneaky, but they forget all the grumpy old bastards were kids once...and IT types tend to never grow up. Apart from finding new IP adreeses or sites that weren't yet blacklisted, most just went looking for unblocked proxies. Top 10 site hits showed the new proxies each day...then you blocked them and watched the monitor screen turn red till they went to the next proxy on the list...which you then blocked...and so on...until you then locked out their accounts and made them come round pay their fine and sign to say they wouldn't do it again. After a few had been suspended and fined or stood down the rest behaved, till the next term. Any who accessed porn sites without proxies were found and suspended....sadly having accessed porn, male students had a flow of blood from head to penis and kept hitting the sites instead of working...easy to spot if you know what to look for.

back in my day we had 'puters at school. the "IT" guy got shitty at me for installing quake on 60 machines. he locked me out of my account. i hacked his and locked him out. he spent a month re-ghosting the network. one. by. one. then i got expelled for stabbing some cunt with a fence post.

**Ender EnZed** · 7th February 2013, 22:48

Originally Posted by Akzle

then i got expelled for stabbing some cunt with a fence post.

Bro, that should be your sig.

**scracha** · 8th February 2013, 06:20

http://www1.k9webprotection.com/

Free, very good, very customisable.

Other (or also) option is to use openDNS family shield. Set it on your router, block other DNS servers and then they can't easily find dodgy stuff on their tablets, smartphones, games consoles etc.

Last but not least, there's a couple of NZ ISP's that offer filtering. Maxnet and watchdog. Might be others...not sure. From memory they aint cheap though as they geared up for Schools and business' IMHO.

**SMOKEU** · 8th February 2013, 08:55

Originally Posted by Akzle

back in my day we had 'puters at school. the "IT" guy got shitty at me for installing quake on 60 machines. he locked me out of my account. i hacked his and locked him out. he spent a month re-ghosting the network. one. by. one. then i got expelled for stabbing some cunt with a fence post.

Fuck bro, you are a legend. I can learn a lot from you.