YES! I've told many, many people...... If you want to keep your kids safe, no laptops, desktops that can't be lugged around and keep them all in a central, common area in the home. We have a computer repair business so we see everything. And I mean EVERYTHING! What is the number one favorite activity of 13, 14, 15+ year old girls who get that digital camera for their birthday? Hundreds of pictures of themselves in the mirror and some with not much or nothing on. Add that to the "My Space pictures folder full of penis shots sent to them. I gave a laptop to a friend's daughter for school. What do I find? This 15 year old girl had amassed hundreds of nude pics of military men in Iraq and Afghanistan. She had become some sort of "Pin Up girl" for them, they were trading pics and chatting.
Sigh........... So she told the girl, at my suggestion, that I put "Mirror Track" software on the laptop to send me logs of everything. HA! No more problems with that now, she probably moved her activities to another machine someplace. Nothing you can do when they are motivated. -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Broadwick Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:51 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids We use Bluecoat K9 and are very happy with it so far. My 14 and 13 year olds have Facebook accounts...under the condition that my wife and I are friended and have their passwords so that we can log in as them at any time. I found out that my son had a Google mail account a while back that he did not ask us for. We killed it. We have one home computer. It is a laptop and it stays in the main living areas. So far, I'm way ahead of the kids on technology and they know it. They believe that we can track anything they can do (and we can...to a point). We check up enough so that they know we are watching. I don't think that there is a perfect solution. If the kids are bound and determined to get to something they will do it. I tell kids that, before they hit "send", they should think about what their post/text/email would look like on the front page of the NY Times (back when people read it!) above the fold. I've seen posts from my kids friend's on Facebook that make me cringe. Regards, Jeff Jeff Broadwick ImageStream 800-813-5123 x106 (US/Can) +1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l) -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steve Barnes Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:29 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] how to protect your kids Marlon, this is a topic that I speak on in local churches, Kiwanis, and such. There are free apps like getk9.com that is completely free and locks down a PC's browsing. Then you can use user account controls in windows vista and Win7 to keep them from over-ridding your settings. But none of them protect Zunes, iPad, PSP's. You will need a account with OpenDNS and install that on your home routers DNS config to make it work right. There are ways you can bypass this for your use. But knowing the teacher you are on this list, I expect your son knows his way around network settings. As the old sayings go where there is a will there is a way. I am considering setting up a OpenDNS Router and making it a option for my clients. Routing all their traffic through it at their CPE. Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:50 AM To: WISPA General List Cc: sp-...@sp-ceo.com Subject: [WISPA] how to protect your kids Hi All, Here's the scenario. My kids are expressly forbidden from having email addresses outside my domain. They are forbidden from having myspace, facebook etc. sites. If they want an email, fine by me, but it's one that *I* can check on. If they want a web site, fine by me, but make it a real one that *I* can delete things from. I'm trying to teach them to NOT do or say things on the internet that might bite them in the butt later. The days of people eventually forgetting the stupidity of youth or passion are long gone. Anyway, my 13 year old has a myspace account. He used a hotmail email address to get it. He had permission to use neither of them. I finally found out about the myspace account and went in to check out what he'd been saying. His trash and sent messages had both been erased between when I got the password out of him and when I had time to check on it. (I didn't know that his zune, a video player!!!! would ALSO allow him to get on the net and work on his page, talk to his friends etc. deep sigh) So, I contacted myspace, using his account, and asked for all of the deleted information. I explained that I was the father of a minor and that he had no permission to use their site and I wanted to know what was being hidden from me. I gave my full name AND phone number as well as my email address. They were very good about contacting me quickly about this issue. However they flatly refused to provide me with any information!!!!! They had NO proof of age etc. on the account. Nothing to verify that the child was over 18 etc. And *I* as the PARENT am prevented from accessing the account information! "go get it from your teen" is basically what I was told. WTF is this??????? Absolutly amazing. So, what do the rest of you do to try to protect or control your kids these days? thanks marlon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! 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