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Squid with squidguard or dansguardian should filter out most of the 'bad stuff'. |
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-Chris |
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM, <emailjp79@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> Michael [19.Nov.2008 16:07]: |
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>>> On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov , Qian Qiao wrote: |
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>>> ... |
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>>>> In that case, isn't putting |
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>>>> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED |
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>>>> into /etc/hosts easier? |
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>>>> Or just set up a proxy. |
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>>> |
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>>> No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites with |
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>>> pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and worse still |
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>>> the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such problems seldom have |
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>>> foolproof solutions. |
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>> Well, at least there is "mvps" [1] with a nice host-file, blocking |
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>> mostly ads, banners etc., which I use myself without much trouble. |
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>> While searching for a list of porn-sites to add to that list, I stumbled |
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>> upon BadHosts [2], which includes several hosts-files, one of them |
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>> entirely for porn-sites. |
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>> |
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>> The sites listed there might get you started, but as noted by Qian Qiao |
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>> before, that list will never be complete or up-to-date. Besides, using |
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>> an anonymizer to reach one of those sites will get you there anyway. You |
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>> would have to block those, too. |
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>> My opinion: If children are to be "protected" from that kind of content, |
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>> seting up a public computer in a livingroom might be a better way (in |
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>> conjunction with a host-file maybe for those nasty ads). But as soon as |
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>> one starts blocking sites, the question will be where to stop. |
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>> JP |
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> |
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> Thanks to all that have answered. I appreciate the responses greatly. |
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> Indeed the question was based around what to do with a kid that's not |
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> using his computer time appropriately. It has nothing to do with |
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> 'protecting' him via censoring or anything like that. It was more a |
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> matter of should he be playing Flash games or playing online videos of |
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> Star Craft games when he has homework to be doing. After thinking |
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> about it the decision in the end was to do nothing technical. Nothing |
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> technical is going to fix this problem other than him growing up a |
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> bit. |
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> Thanks again, |
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> Mark |
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