[clue] Monitoring web surfing

chris fedde chris at fedde.us
Fri Oct 14 09:37:45 MDT 2011


>From my point of view this kind of monitoring is not so much about
catching the kids cheating but about protecting them till they are
ready for the concepts they might be exposed to.

It's akin to putting a latch on the knife drawer.  When the kids are
big enough to get into the knife drawer they are big enough for the
talk about knife safety.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Ryan J Nicholson <rjn256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not a fan of web filtering or monitoring, but - it may be good
> parenting. That said, I'd use a transparent proxy, because any
> DNS-based solution is only good until they figure out they can specify
> their own DNS server addresses and bypass your filtering.
>
> You won't catch any URLs that get resolved beyond your modem.
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