Filtering Software for Kids Network

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Wed Oct 10 17:18:06 PDT 2007


On 11/10/2007, at 03:47 , Mike Friedman wrote:

> I am about to start on a project to set up a computer lab with  
> around 20 workstations for children (ages ranging from 3-5 up to  
> 13-15) and wondered what filtering software people have used and  
> how successful it has been, how difficult to manage, etc.

I've found the best protection for an unsupervised computer lab is an  
airgap firewall.  Failing that, a proxy server with a "whitelist"  
approach.

If the content filter lets your users get to Google, it's useless.

Alex




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