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My kids aged 10 and 8 years, are slowly getting to know the internet. They are mostly playing online games on friv.com or sending emails to other kids from school. We are limiting their time at the computer to at most 1 hour daily, and we are supervising, checking on them every 10 minutes or so, or using "x11vnc -viewonly -display :0". Also I have modified the "/etc/hosts" to include stuff from a (now defunct) site which contains about 1500 lines that block various unwanted sites where each line looks like "127.0.0.1 www.doubleclick.net". Also I modified "/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf" to include line "*.* @my_pc" so that all the computers report back to me (and I have lwatch running on my administration desktop). But I still feel that this is not enough, and I want your advice about protecting kids from the dangers of internet.
(Score: 1) by Freeman on Wednesday April 23 2014, @05:01PM
In effect you really want something like an Internet Kiosk. You want a whitelist of sites and by default block everything else. I setup a couple of Public Access Computers at the Library I work at. Here is a link to the solution I came up with. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8 1701/ [murga-linux.com] I was asked why I didn't use a system-wide firewall or the like. The simple answer, because I didn't. It was by no means the best or even easiest solution, but it worked well enough for what I needed.
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