[vox] Web Browsers for Kids

[Dave Margolis]

On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Micah Cowan wrote:

> I'm not sure I agree that technology can't act as a foolproof
> safeguard... obviously, it can't work against an older child who is
> deliberately working to get around it (I know this quite well, having
> been that "older child" in the past ;) )... but obviously, a
> restrictive /etc/hosts with no name resolution, possibly combined with
> very restrictive firewalling, would make a /quite/ effective tool for
> restricting access to specific sites. Of course, that sort of
> globally-applied restriction isn't quite what I want, but there should
> be a way to do the same thing for a specific application/user.

Well if we're talking whitelist, I totally agree with you.  Finding  
an app-specific way to say something like "deny from all, allow from  
pbskids.org" would totally work.  Setting up a local proxy sounds  
like one (perhaps overkill, but effective) way to do it.  I'd like to  
hear what you come up with.

Dave