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Protecting your Family From the dark places on the Internet Going beyond the standard PC Filter, and dealing with the multiple devices that access the internet in your home
Protecting your Family
From the dark places on the Internet
Going beyond the standard PC Filter, and dealing with the multiple devices that access the internet in your home
First, the stats• The US porn industry generated $13B in 2006• 12% of all websites are pornography related• 25% of all internet searches are porn related• 42% of internet users have viewed porn• Average age of first exposure to internet porn, age 11• 90% of boys have seen pornography by age 18• 60% of girls have seen pornography by age 18• 71% of teens hide online behavior parents• Breakdown of visitors to porn sites
o 72% Maleo 28% Female
Sources: http://www.covenanteyes.com/pornstats/,http://www.familysafemedia.com/pornography_statistics.html
Some of the dark places
• Pornography & adult themed sites • Social Media – Facebook, SnapChat, Instagram
o Some studies suggest 20% of divorces are linked to Social Media usageo Social Networking sites are a common target for predators
• Peer to Peer/File Sharingo Easy source for adult and illegal content
• Proxy/Anonymizero Tools that will allow a user to bypass filters/restrictions
• Virus/Trojans/Malware/Bots/Spyware/Phishingo Can easily steal private information (identity theft)o Can be used to activate camera, microphone, etc.
Develop a planIf you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
-Benjamin Franklin
There are two aspects of a plan to protect your family
Spiritual/Mental Physical
Let’s Get StartedLet’s look at specific examples, and the tools
needed to protect your family
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Family PCIf you have one central computer, then some
common sense steps, and a few simple programs will work to protect your family
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Family PC• Keep the computer in an open area
o Kitchen, Living room, Family roomo Don’t put it in a room where a door can be closed
• Utilize User Accounts to limit accesso Admin account for full accesso Kids account to limit program installs, set child friendly homepages
• Utilize Parental Controls to limit content and time
PC Level ProtectionFollowing is a list of recommended programs to use
on individual computersEach program is free for personal use
o WebContent Filter
• http://www1.k9webprotection.com/
o Virus Protection
• http://free.avg.com/
o Ad-Ware/Malware Protection
• http://www.safer-networking.org/
o PC Optimization & Registry Cleaner
• http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Whole Home Protection
With so many cell phones, tablets, laptops and other mobile devices, the strategy has to change
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Basic NetworkingTo understand how to protect your whole home, a simple understanding of basic networking will help
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• IP Addresses are the way devices communicate
• Each IP address is unique, like a phone number
• A gateway/firewall will have 2 IP addresses
• Public (can be seen by the outside world)
• Private
192.168.1.100 192.168.1.101
192.168.1.1private
38.25.94.234public
Basic NetworkingDynamic Name Servers (DNS)
The Internet doesn’t understand www.google.com
Any time you enter a website in your browser, a DNS server is sent the information, and translates that into a public IP
address.
This becomes a point that you can intercept requests, and direct traffic where you want it to go.
I’d like to go to a bad place on the interwebs
Not on my watch. Your mother
wouldn’t approve
Home Computer DNS Server
Whole Home Protection
OpenDNS FamilyShield is an easy and free way to control web access for your whole home
• Go to http://www.opendns.com/• Select Web Filtering for Home, and follow the
steps to setup FamilyShield on a Router
OpenDNSOnce you’ve signed in, you can select categories of websites to restrict. You can also add websites as allowed or blocked.
Routers with Parental Controls
There are many commercial options for routers with parental controls.
• Netgearo http://www.netgear.com/lpc
• Linksys• SkyDog is a new product just funded on KickStarter
o Offers an online portal with user level control for content, time, etc.o Will notify you via email or SMS of eventso Keeps a log of websites visited
Cell Phones• Cell phones pose a unique challenge• If you have your home Wifi secured, they can
easily be bypassed by using the cellular data network
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Cell phones• Check with your carrier to see if they offer
parental controlso Usually these controls are for limiting IM’s or calling patterns, not
content
• Utilize the phone settings to control content
Each phone is uniqueConsult your usermanual or googleyour phone and ‘parental controls’to learn about yourphone
Cell phones• There are many apps that will also help you
control content on your phoneo K9 Web Protection Safe Browser
• Available for free for iPhone and Androido iWonder Pro
• Available for free for iPhone• Paid option for reporting
Cell phones• There are also many location based apps that will
help you track your child’s whereabouts, and offers some other extras, like locking the phone
The Key to it all
Communication
Communication• Talk about your plan as a family• Take the time to sit with each child and discuss
their individual needs and resolve concerns• If you pay for their phone, then know their
password and check it every once in a whileo Check the internet historyo Check IM’s and textso Check social media posts (Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc)
• If a mistake is made, talk about it in loveo explaining why you set up rules, and why they need to be followed
• Have shared passwords with your spouse• Be accountable to someone beside yourself• DON’T FORGET TO PRAY!!!
o This is a war between good and evil that started eons ago. You can’t win it alone, so don’t try.
