Net Nanny?
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Having a very curious and tech-savvy eight-year-old at home, I'm thinking it's about time I added an extra layer of protection to my web connection. Although most of his computer time is supervised, he is more than capable of using the smart TV etc., so I was thinking of adding a whitelist/blacklist to my router. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work? Is it obtrusive? Other than that, what about net-nanny type software? (though I'd prefer a router solution, so I don't have to 'fix' all the connected devices)
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Having a very curious and tech-savvy eight-year-old at home, I'm thinking it's about time I added an extra layer of protection to my web connection. Although most of his computer time is supervised, he is more than capable of using the smart TV etc., so I was thinking of adding a whitelist/blacklist to my router. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work? Is it obtrusive? Other than that, what about net-nanny type software? (though I'd prefer a router solution, so I don't have to 'fix' all the connected devices)
URL blacklisting in routers isn't very reliable (VPNs, proxies, even HTTPS..), IP blacklists have to be updated.. but they work to some extent. Using opendns.com you can probably do some better filtering, but of course that is fairly easily avoided by setting 8.8.8.8 as the DNS (does he/she know how to do that?).
Kyudos wrote:
Is it obtrusive?
Well yes, if you wanted to visit the sites you're blocking. By the way, they're probably already shitposting on 4chan anyway.
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URL blacklisting in routers isn't very reliable (VPNs, proxies, even HTTPS..), IP blacklists have to be updated.. but they work to some extent. Using opendns.com you can probably do some better filtering, but of course that is fairly easily avoided by setting 8.8.8.8 as the DNS (does he/she know how to do that?).
Kyudos wrote:
Is it obtrusive?
Well yes, if you wanted to visit the sites you're blocking. By the way, they're probably already shitposting on 4chan anyway.
harold aptroot wrote:
Using opendns.com you can probably do some better filtering, but of course that is fairly easily avoided by setting 8.8.8.8 as the DNS (does he/she know how to do that?)
Thankfully, he doesn't know that yet! I'll look into OpenDNS I think. I'm under no illusions about being able to 'protect' him for long, but hopefully I can keep him from accidental exposure for a while longer...
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Having a very curious and tech-savvy eight-year-old at home, I'm thinking it's about time I added an extra layer of protection to my web connection. Although most of his computer time is supervised, he is more than capable of using the smart TV etc., so I was thinking of adding a whitelist/blacklist to my router. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work? Is it obtrusive? Other than that, what about net-nanny type software? (though I'd prefer a router solution, so I don't have to 'fix' all the connected devices)
Netgear Routers come with fairly advanced Net Nanny functions - Apart from the usual IP black/white listing they come with a keyword based black/white list.
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harold aptroot wrote:
Using opendns.com you can probably do some better filtering, but of course that is fairly easily avoided by setting 8.8.8.8 as the DNS (does he/she know how to do that?)
Thankfully, he doesn't know that yet! I'll look into OpenDNS I think. I'm under no illusions about being able to 'protect' him for long, but hopefully I can keep him from accidental exposure for a while longer...
You are doomed... you know kyudosjr is already a :bob:ian and he is reading this post hust now...
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Having a very curious and tech-savvy eight-year-old at home, I'm thinking it's about time I added an extra layer of protection to my web connection. Although most of his computer time is supervised, he is more than capable of using the smart TV etc., so I was thinking of adding a whitelist/blacklist to my router. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work? Is it obtrusive? Other than that, what about net-nanny type software? (though I'd prefer a router solution, so I don't have to 'fix' all the connected devices)
In the worst case you could have a computer as the gate to the Internet. Then in your router allow only one device (your internet "server"). You could assign to that pc your router current ip and change the router one... this would remove the need to change all your devices configurations. And in that pc you could use a kind of netnanny software. Just put a reliable password and lock every access to it: bios, user... Of course this should be the most flexible way of doing it, but implies having a computer on all day.. set it up... Probably the router way would be better... My half cent.
[www.tamautomation.com] | Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing. [YouTube channel]
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Having a very curious and tech-savvy eight-year-old at home, I'm thinking it's about time I added an extra layer of protection to my web connection. Although most of his computer time is supervised, he is more than capable of using the smart TV etc., so I was thinking of adding a whitelist/blacklist to my router. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work? Is it obtrusive? Other than that, what about net-nanny type software? (though I'd prefer a router solution, so I don't have to 'fix' all the connected devices)
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Having a very curious and tech-savvy eight-year-old at home, I'm thinking it's about time I added an extra layer of protection to my web connection. Although most of his computer time is supervised, he is more than capable of using the smart TV etc., so I was thinking of adding a whitelist/blacklist to my router. Does anyone have any experience with this? Does it work? Is it obtrusive? Other than that, what about net-nanny type software? (though I'd prefer a router solution, so I don't have to 'fix' all the connected devices)
W10 family mode has a lot of big brother reporting features available.
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