Hi All,
Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora?
Many thanks, -T
On 01/16/2020 12:46 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora?
The only thing I can think of offhand is using /etc/hosts to assign them an address of 127.0.0.0, making them unreachable. There was a time when I used that to block goatse.cx, along with a few of the other more obnoxious shock sites, but I haven't needed to bother for a long time. One nice thing about doing this on Linux is that you don't need to reboot after making changes as you do with Winderz, or at least did when I worked with it.
On 2020-01-16 00:01, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/16/2020 12:46 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora?
The only thing I can think of offhand is using /etc/hosts to assign them an address of 127.0.0.0, making them unreachable. There was a time when I used that to block goatse.cx, along with a few of the other more obnoxious shock sites, but I haven't needed to bother for a long time. One nice thing about doing this on Linux is that you don't need to reboot after making changes as you do with Winderz, or at least did when I worked with it.
Does anyone publish a list of these site to block?
On 01/16/2020 01:03 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Does anyone publish a list of these site to block?
A quick bit of googlemancy on /etc/hosts block brings up a long list of sites discussing this. It's late at night and I have other things to do before going to bed so I'll let you check them out for yourself. HTH, HAND.
I've used this tool to generate hosts files for a large number of semi- unamaged PCs at my work. They are in remote offices and have no real infrastructure to set up proxy servers.
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 00:03 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Does anyone publish a list of these site to block?
We use a spare server as a firewall, put untangle on it, works great
On 1/16/20 1:01 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/16/2020 12:46 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora?
The only thing I can think of offhand is using /etc/hosts to assign them an address of 127.0.0.0, making them unreachable. There was a time when I used that to block goatse.cx, along with a few of the other more obnoxious shock sites, but I haven't needed to bother for a long time. One nice thing about doing this on Linux is that you don't need to reboot after making changes as you do with Winderz, or at least did when I worked with it. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 23:46 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora?
An arranged marriage?
But, being serious, does your ISP offer any filtering options? My modem/router supposedly offers such a feature, too. Though if you want to do it yourself, you can do proxy filtering using Squid.
If they have smart phones, that's going to bypass anything you try outside of their phone.
On 01/16/2020 01:01 AM, Tim via users wrote:
If they have smart phones, that's going to bypass anything you try outside of their phone.
If they're using their phones at home and using your WiFi, filters on the router will work. Once they leave home with their phones, what I quoted above is absolutely right.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:10 AM Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
If they're using their phones at home and using your WiFi, filters on the router will work.
And as noted, any home-based filters will fail if they can connect their phones to some other wi-fi than yours. School networks are probably filtered, but of course coffee shops and other public hot spots likely are not.
At work, we used to use OpenDNS to keep porn off our network. Since we received US Govt. funds, we were required by an Act of Congress to take steps to keep porn off our network. Obviously no one can check to ensure there is no porn on every network that receives funds, there were a few "approved" methods to comply, and OpenDNS was one of them. I think it's pretty effective in general, as they do a good job of keeping their list of porn sites up to date. They also block phishing sites (web sites that mimic real-world sites in an attempt to convince you to give up the private info they are trying to get), which is (to me at least) far more valuable than blocking porn.
We of course had an enterprise account, but you can use the service for free as long as the number of queries you generate is small enough (probably most home sites would qualify). You can go to opendns.com for more info.
--Greg W.
On 1/16/20 3:46 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 1:10 AM Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us mailto:joe@zeff.us> wrote:
If they're using their phones at home and using your WiFi, filters on the router will work.And as noted, any home-based filters will fail if they can connect their phones to some other wi-fi than yours. School networks are probably filtered, but of course coffee shops and other public hot spots likely are not.
At work, we used to use OpenDNS to keep porn off our network. Since we received US Govt. funds, we were required by an Act of Congress to take steps to keep porn off our network. Obviously no one can check to ensure there is no porn on every network that receives funds, there were a few "approved" methods to comply, and OpenDNS was one of them. I think it's pretty effective in general, as they do a good job of keeping their list of porn sites up to date. They also block phishing sites (web sites that mimic real-world sites in an attempt to convince you to give up the private info they are trying to get), which is (to me at least) far more valuable than blocking porn.
We of course had an enterprise account, but you can use the service for free as long as the number of queries you generate is small enough (probably most home sites would qualify). You can go to opendns.com http://opendns.com for more info.
+1 to ^^ they are great. I used it with all my kids (really trying to avoid accidental exposure). You can also, on android phones, set a DNS server that is queried instead of the ISP / cell provider DNS. I have not experimented with this for content blocking but I have used it with wanting to use say google's DNS rather than letting whatever wifi i am track me. It can cause some problems with things like captive portals but generally works pretty well.
langdon
--Greg W.
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That is what I have tested at home and it seems to work. If you want to see it in action you can go to internetbadguys.com (a site run by OpenDNS) both before and after setting your forwarding DNS servers to those of OpenDNS and note the difference.
--Greg
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 3:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 2020-01-16 12:46, Greg Woods wrote:
At work, we used to use OpenDNS to keep porn off our network.
Just point the DNS server to Open DNS?
DNS1: 208.67.222.222 DNS2: 208.67.220.220
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 3:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 2020-01-16 12:46, Greg Woods wrote: > At work, we used to use OpenDNS to keep porn off our network. Just point the DNS server to Open DNS? DNS1: 208.67.222.222 DNS2: 208.67.220.220
On 2020-01-16 15:04, Greg Woods wrote:
That is what I have tested at home and it seems to work. If you want to see it in action you can go to internetbadguys.com http://internetbadguys.com (a site run by OpenDNS) both before and after setting your forwarding DNS servers to those of OpenDNS and note the difference.
--Greg
Cool. Thank you.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:47 AM ToddAndMargo via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Hi All,
Is there any such thing a kid filter to keep incorrigibles off porn and dating sites for Fedora?
Not Fedora, but have you consider pie hole? Can put it in a docker container or vm guest, or in a RaspberryPI as the name hints at.
Old thread of someone doing what you want: https://chadmayfield.com/2017/06/29/blocking-porn-with-pihole/
Many thanks, -T _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org