[ale] snmptrapsd reporting, um, er - flawed logic

[Dow Hurst]

Yep, that is the best way to protect your kids.  Most businesses would improve 
productivity by blocking by default for most services.  If you really need to 
get somewhere for business or personal reasons that are legit, you can usually 
get that stuck in the rules.
Dow


Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 21:13, BruceG wrote:
> 
>>I guess that about covers it. I suffered from some flawed logic in setting up 
>>logging from my Linksys router to my dual-boot SuSE 9.0/WinME desktop. As 
>>long as SuSE is up and running, I get all the log messages. Pretty cool. I 
>>thought the p*rn surfing was done. Told the kids. Set up reporting. No more 
>>p*rn.
>>
>>Yeah, right! I logged into the router and checked logs out that way, to see if 
>>they look like what I'm getting on my desktop. And found that the dual-boot 
>>PC is booted into Windows for looking at inappropriate stuff.
> 
> 
> I have a 1 year old daughter and hopefully in 2 years I'll get a boy :)
> 
> This give me plenty of time to think about this and talk it over with
> friends in the same position.  What I've decided to do is implement
> squid to block everything.  I will then add only approved sites to the
> list.  I will also use iptables to protect them even more.  By then
> (8yrs +/-) I will use whatever the standard on Linux is and implement
> those ideas.  It is impossible to block all the porn sites because I do
> not know them.  But if I block everything and only allow what I approve
> that will make my job much easier and realistic.  
> 
> So this idea might work for you.  Block everything and then only add
> supported sites.  They have to ask you to add sites to the list. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>Looks like it's time to pick up a second-hand PII or PIII and set up a proxy 
>>server. Kids are a lot quicker at figuring things out, lol
> 
> 
> Reminds me of my teenage years on BBS's :)
> 
> 
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