As a responsible parent, you should not be relying on filtering to educate your children. Filters have more holes than Swiss cheese, often block entirely legitimate educational resources, make your children know that you don't trust them to be responsible, and learning about proxies and VPNs is trivial for them (just try googling "proxy servers unblock websites").
If you don't trust your children to use the internet responsibly, don't let them use it. Or let them use it but only under your supervision. If you let them go wild but put up filters, they will find a way around, one way or another, and at that point the princess is in another castle.
I'm all for having discussions, but if you think the dichotomy should be "don't use the Internet at ALL" or "Talk to them about it and hope they're mature enough to avoid getting rick-rolled into rotten.com" then I heartily disagree.
As parent you can install whatever SSL CA you'd like and make full MitM of your own devices. For everyone else it's very important to not leak any private information to ISP or any other party.
marksomnian|7 years ago
If you don't trust your children to use the internet responsibly, don't let them use it. Or let them use it but only under your supervision. If you let them go wild but put up filters, they will find a way around, one way or another, and at that point the princess is in another castle.
unethical_ban|7 years ago
en.wikipedia.org
I'm all for having discussions, but if you think the dichotomy should be "don't use the Internet at ALL" or "Talk to them about it and hope they're mature enough to avoid getting rick-rolled into rotten.com" then I heartily disagree.
XparentX|7 years ago
And the trick with local CA is awesome!
SXX|7 years ago