On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:55:40AM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote: > Ken, > > Just curious, are you using pf to filter out the bad websites for you kids? > I find that to be more challenging for our older daughter to not stumble > into the bad stuff and not the wholesome sites like openbsd.org, which > happens to be her homepage. ;) > > Best, > J. B.
So when computer usage for them first became something to talk about here they had only kindles that only connect to our wifi. Kindles are pretty good out of the box for parental controls. For the main workstation in the house (usually linux) that they can access I used Dan's Guardian. Overtime, they got older and so many more devices are in play, from android phones to chromebooks. Our home uses opendns, set at the router. Granted easy enough to bypass but my kids aren't there yet. On the android side we have verizon so we use the verizon family settings. I don't consider any of this ideal but it is the best I got so far without having to spend all my time administrating things on the home network. I opt for a mixture of what I got and keeping the kids believing that my computer skills are that that I can see what they do no matter what. Which is mostly true but I don't practice that. Also if asked to unlock their devices for us to see something they know they are to do it without question or delay or they lose said device. The difficult part of all this and why I asked this here. My wife and I have different philosophies on such things. Example she would put the kids in a damn plastic bubble, meanwhile I am the type that believes that our job is not to protect them from everything but to teach them to protect themselves and make good decisions as we won't always be there. My wife is on the religious right side of the room politics wise and I am more of the libertarian. Sorry to digress but I asked these things here as I figure others here have similar mindset on security vs censorship vs privacy. I don't view them as mutually exclusive but there are ways that I try to avoid that strengthen one by compromising the other. As my kids enter their teenage years I know they will find a way to subvert such controls and the more I try to stop them from doing so the harder it will get when they do and the more likely they are to not trust us to bring us a problem they have. In short I am more worried about my kids feeling they have to hide everything that they don't bring something important to us to talk about, than I am about them sneaking something by me. Ken
