Internet Security for Parents and Students

Here is some of the info from our parents only sex talk on wednesday night. comment if you have any questions.

Safe Eyes is one resource that we highlighted. Safe Eyes is a monitoring software that has tools for both personal and mobile devices. You can check out more info at Safe Eyes

Here is another resource that a family in our church uses. It has some great stuff.
Here's what we're doing at my house instead of using Safe Eyes. On my
wireless router, instead of using knology's DNS servers, I'm using
OpenDNS's DNS servers (check them out at ). If
you open a free account with them, you can tell them to not allow adult
sites. If someone at my house tries to go to an adult site, they will
get a "blocked" message in their browser.

There are advantages and disadvantages to using OpenDNS vs. Safe Eyes.

Pros:
- OpenDNS is free
- You go to 1 place to handle all computers, laptops, PSPs, iTouch
iPods, etc. that use the wired/wireless internet in your house.

Cons:
- OpenDNS is not monitoring software - you can't monitor what your kids
are saying with IMs, on FaceBook, etc. (However, you can completely
block MySpace/FaceBook/etc. if you would like.)

You could also combine the two - use OpenDNS to block adult sites and
use Safe Eyes to monitor everything else.

check this resource out at OpenDNS

Comment and let us know if you decide to use any of these or if you know of any other resources.