Re: [gentoo-user] Deny flash to a specific user?

["Chris Thomas" <sruchris@gmail.com>]

Squid with squidguard or dansguardian should filter out most of the 'bad stuff'.

-Chris

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:22 AM,  <emailjp79@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Michael [19.Nov.2008 16:07]:
>>
>>> On 10:05 Wed 19 Nov     , Qian Qiao wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> In that case, isn't putting
>>>>
>>>> 127.0.0.1 ADDRESSES_TO_BE_BLOCKED
>>>>
>>>> into /etc/hosts easier?
>>>>
>>>> Or just set up a proxy.
>>>
>>> No, perhaps not, considering the fact that there are so many sites with
>>> pron. Maintaining such a massive hosts file is a disaster and worse still
>>> the solution is not fullproof. But then, FWIW such problems seldom have
>>> foolproof solutions.
>>
>> Well, at least there is "mvps" [1] with a nice host-file, blocking
>> mostly ads, banners etc., which I use myself without much trouble.
>> While searching for a list of porn-sites to add to that list, I stumbled
>> upon BadHosts [2], which includes several hosts-files, one of them
>> entirely for porn-sites.
>>
>> The sites listed there might get you started, but as noted by Qian Qiao
>> before, that list will never be complete or up-to-date. Besides, using
>> an anonymizer to reach one of those sites will get you there anyway. You
>> would have to block those, too.
>>
>> My opinion: If children are to be "protected" from that kind of content,
>> seting up a public computer in a livingroom might be a better way (in
>> conjunction with a host-file maybe for those nasty ads). But as soon as
>> one starts blocking sites, the question will be where to stop.
>>
>>
>> JP
>
> Thanks to all that have answered. I appreciate the responses greatly.
>
> Indeed the question was based around what to do with a kid that's not
> using his computer time appropriately. It has nothing to do with
> 'protecting' him via censoring or anything like that. It was more a
> matter of should he be playing Flash games or playing online videos of
> Star Craft games when he has homework to be doing. After thinking
> about it the decision in the end was to do nothing technical. Nothing
> technical is going to fix this problem other than him growing up a
> bit.
>
> Thanks again,
> Mark
>
>