Originally Posted by gene_mingo

Offensive security auditing is a hobby of mine. I play around with several versions of BSD and Linux. Each have their ups and downs. The one thing I do know is that if your kids want to bypass software security all they need to do is burn a bootable version of BSD or Linux. Most boot version come with GUI's on them and nice web browsers. Locking out root has no affect when you are running a bootable CD.

I really don't want to sound so negative about this. If your kid has physical access to the computer and is unsupervised, then it would only take two or three mins to have root access or admin passwords, depending on the OS you are using.

You can't use software alone to supervise the internet. It will fail.

If you want some really in depth information about what is currently being used to break windows vista/xp or BSD/Linux, send me a PM and I will steer you towards some information on the topic.