[Swansea Hackspace] Home Internet Filter

[Neil Jones]

On 26/03/16 17:41, Richard Morgan wrote:
> Hi All,
> What do you use for filtering your home internet for children?
>
> There is BT Parental Controls if you're using infinity broadband but 
> I've also seen examples using Raspberry Pi as a proxy running 
> Squid/Squidguard.

You've not had a lot of answers, but can I suggest investigating the 
problem a bit further.
What does BT filter? Researching it shows that it i domain based. That 
at least is better than local councils who in the web filtering for 
librariesand their email systems use a very stupid word based system.

However, BT's filter is made by another company and therein may lie a 
problem. A lot of these things are driven by American bigots who want 
their children protected from all sorts of harmless things, Evolution is 
one of those so just about any decent and harmless biology site is going 
to be off limits. If you have any doubts about this check any American 
forum. I am currently receiving postings from young earth creationists, 
racists, homophobes and genocide deniers.

Those of you who have been members of the local Linux User Group will 
remember Rhys Sage AKA "Secret Agent Sage" who went off to America and 
managed to
find one of these rednecks willing to marry him. He caused an uproar on 
that list by posting bigoted stuff which is only too common in the USA.
So before getting any filtering system I would actually find if it is 
tailored to British values not the those of the American Kristian 
Koalition Klan.

Then there is the problem that any intelligent child can bypass the 
filters anyway with the likes of Tor etc.

Neil

>
> Can anyone suggest a solution that's configurable and manageable 
> remotely please? Thanks.
>
> Happy Easter all,
>
> Richard
>
>
> -- 
> Kind regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
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