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Originally Posted by gene_mingo  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. |
I think you hit the nail on the head. In general, if someone has physical access to a computer, then security safeguards are very difficult to uphold (impossible if the attacker has sufficient technical expertise).
I personally think that constant supervision of children while on the internet along with placing the computer in a public area of the household is the best way to go (Along with usual Christian parenting of teaching the children the depravity of sin and temptation and exhorting them to guard themselves against it).
I suppose the one way that would be a possibility would be to have only the monitor and keyboard available (with the rest of the computer locked in an inaccessible cabinet) and have some sort of locked down kiosk mode that severely limits what can be accessed (a filtered web browser and other needed applications).
Preparing our children to face these temptations is the best approach since they will obviously not always be under our supervision. One of our extended family's pastor recently was removed from the pulpit for surfing internet pornography on the church computer system for many years before it came to light. Surprisingly, the church had no filtering software installed, but it likely wouldn't have made a difference.