Re: GPL Parental Controls

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:39:37 +0000
Paul Cager <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David Baron wrote:
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote:
My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able
to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it
herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for
konqueror or opera?
You'll have to set up a proxy computer that runs dansguardian or a
similar filter.

I only have one system here. Maybe the proxy could be a virtual machine.
Question is how much this would complicate/bog down the works.



You should not need a separate machine to run DansGuardian (and e.g.
tinyproxy). They'll run on the "main" machine and you would simply need
to point your browser to the "localhost" proxy.

Of course there is nothing to stop your daughter reconfiguring the
browser to bypass DansGuardian, but I'm assuming this isn't likely
(yet!). To fix that you _would_ need a separate proxy machine.


Or otherwise, program aware firewall rules (I think those are possible with
current linux) that only allow the proxy to access port 80 outside localhost,
or redirect everything except the proxy to the proxy (transparent proxy). All
of these are a bit tricky on one machine, but possible, and of course, once she
knows enough she'll be able to bypass that (and they will always know more then
us from some point about computers ... ;-). I am guessing that you just want to
going to the wrong places non-intentionally though ...

Like you mentioned before, you can also use a virtual machine but that will
increase the load and still can be bypassed.




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