RE: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

[Brett Freer]

Hi Mark,

With www.opendns.com, you create an account, and choose your own rules.
I think they have around 50 categories to start with. You can then
extend it with your own personal white/black lists. You can't block the
flash technology, but you can have a lot of success blocking unwanted
website types.

Kind regards

Brett Freer

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Knecht [mailto:markknecht@×××××.com] 
Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2008 12:31 AM
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

Hey Brett,
   I already point my router at these guys. Is there something more I
could be doing?

   I've decided that for the most part this is probably a futile
undertaking. It turns out some of his online classes are using Flash and
certainly a lot of video media as port of how they teach. With that in
mind it's pretty difficult for me to block the technologies themselves
as a 'policy' decision. That leaves me with trying to block web sites
which turns me real-time policeman which I'm unwilling to do so I've let
him know that I'm watching how he uses the machines. It hasn't worked in
the past though...

Cheers,
Mark

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Brett Freer <brett@××××××××××××.au>
wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Why don't you try www.opendns.com?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Brett
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Knecht [mailto:markknecht@×××××.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2008 3:35 AM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM,  <emailjp79@×××.de> wrote:
>> Michael [19.Nov.2008 16:07]:
>>
>>> On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov     , Qian Qiao wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> In that case, isn't putting
>>>>
>>>> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED
>>>>
>>>> into /etc/hosts easier?
>>>>
>>>> Or just set up a proxy.
>>>
>>> No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites
>>> with pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and
>>> worse still the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such
>>> problems seldom have foolproof solutions.
>>
>> Well, at least there is "mvps" [1] with a nice host-file, blocking
>> mostly ads, banners etc., which I use myself without much trouble.
>> While searching for a list of porn-sites to add to that list, I
>> stumbled upon BadHosts [2], which includes several hosts-files, one
>> of
>
>> them entirely for porn-sites.
>>
>> The sites listed there might get you started, but as noted by Qian
>> Qiao before, that list will never be complete or up-to-date. Besides,

>> using an anonymizer to reach one of those sites will get you there
>> anyway. You would have to block those, too.
>>
>> My opinion: If children are to be "protected" from that kind of
>> content, seting up a public computer in a livingroom might be a
>> better
>
>> way (in conjunction with a host-file maybe for those nasty ads). But
>> as soon as one starts blocking sites, the question will be where to
> stop.
>>
>>
>> JP
>
> Thanks to all that have answered. I appreciate the responses greatly.
>
> Indeed the question was based around what to do with a kid that's not
> using his computer time appropriately. It has nothing to do with
> 'protecting' him via censoring or anything like that. It was more a
> matter of should he be playing Flash games or playing online videos of

> Star Craft games when he has homework to be doing. After thinking
> about it the decision in the end was to do nothing technical. Nothing
> technical is going to fix this problem other than him growing up a
bit.
>
> Thanks again,
> Mark
>
>
>