OT - Protecting kids who use Linux

[Steve Larsen]

My wife and I pondered this one for sometime .. we spent a few bucks
and bought a cisco router with a pix firewall and learned how to program
in addresses and then put a proxy server on the inside ... configured that
and our son is only allowed to connect to the proxy server .. the router
not allow him to make outside requests .. if he gets past the pix .. I am
sure cisco will want to talk to him about a Q&A job.

See when it comes to children .. money shouldn't be a issue. You sure
as heck wouldn't give your kids a car without seat belts. So apply that same
mentality to Internet access. Then come to the conclusion that their friends
mom and dad aren't very bright Internet users, or just don't give a rip, 
and your
children will see "stuff" you don't want them to. All you can do is .. what you
can .. and cope with the rest as best you can.

Steve Larsen
rolandsdad at opengearbox.com



At 01:13 PM 10/5/2004 -0500, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:45:10AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    My son was 10 when he got his first PC. No Internet access and RH8,
> > upgraded to RH9 later on. Still no net access.
> >
> >    He's now 12 and we are interested in giving him access to the
> > Internet, mostly for homework research, but clearly he will want to
> > chat with his friends using GAIM/etc. and he'll have a browser to who
> > knows where he'll go and what he'll see. Certainly not me....
> >
> >    However, my wife and I feel we want and need to know what he's
> > doing, what he's looking at,who he's talking to, etc. All the normal
> > parental responsibilities. We don't want to be overbearing about it,
> > but we know it's something we need to be careful about.
> >
> >    How do we do this? I'm using Linux. My wife is switching to Linux
> > in the next few months. The only OS my son has had in his room is
> > Linux. I understand how to 'configure' his machine remotely, but I
> > don't know how to keep him safe while still letting him have fun and
> > do what he wants to do within reason.
> >
> >    I did some very simple, basic searches for things like 'netnanny &&
> > Linux' but came up empty.
> >
> >    What are the tools I have available for this sort of application.
> > Are there any good sites for this sort of thing? I'm hoping someone
> > has read a recent article, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
>This is non-technical, but one of the best things you can do is put
>his monitor where you can see it, too.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
>Grace happens.
>
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