Re: [PLUG] Child Proofing my Home Network

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

On 2/26/2015 2:50 PM, plug-request@lists.phillylinux.org wrote:

> Is there a mechanism to restrict wifi to just your router? What
> happens if she visits a friend's house, and uses their wifi? There
> won't be any filtering then, correct?

No, there is not.  Any other wifi she can get access to, I have no 
control over.  I'm ok with that in my case because:

1.  It's only sporadic, not all day and night.

2.  I do want her to have a sense that she can be part of her 
generation.  Her friends seem to all have (unfiltered) cellular data so 
for her to have nothing when she leaves home would make her a total "odd 
duck".  This is a compromise.

3.  As hard as it is for me to deal with on one level, I have to 
understand that at 14 she's ready to begin being exposed to 
non-family-friendly content.  I was 14 once and remember it.  (I do wish 
there were some way to separate titillating nudity, of the type I saw in 
certain magazines when I was ~14, from some of the seriously-disturbing 
content that's on the internet now).

The question of what age to give a child a wifi-capable device (which 
could access unfiltered internet if taken elsewhere) is tricky.  If you 
can keep the device in safe locations, I think 8 is fine.  If your 
family situation is such that you're not sure, older would be better.

A special case would be where you live next to / above a business that 
has open wifi, or neighbors who believe in sharing.  Not sure what to do 
there.

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