Squid with squidguard or dansguardian should filter out most of the 'bad stuff'.
-Chris On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >
