[lug] monitoring kids

[Ryan Newby]

I've never done it but it might be a fun project to setup a proxy server
along with something like ntopng for traffic analysis. Either configure the
proxy on each client or force routing and/or DNS via DHCP.

Or if you just want to throw money at the problem take a look at meraki or
a pa-2xx firewalls

On Tue, May 5, 2020, 11:39 AM Davide Del Vento <davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Folks,
>
> For the series better late than never, I would like to track my kids use
> of their computers which is supposedly be only "school" and for obvious
> reasons has skyrocketed to a large amount of time.
>
> The first kid works on a Linux box, where I am root and the kid is not, so
> that may be easy. The second one has a BVSD-provided chromebook where I
> don't even have an account (as far as I know) but I could "kindly ask" the
> kid to lend me the machine so I can make sure everything is safe an up to
> date. Alternatively, I could do something on the modem-router, which is a
> combined device made by Motorola, model MG7540. At this point I would only
> know where they are spending their time, not necessarily block things (yet?)
>
> I have no idea where to start for any of the three options. I fear both
> https://xkcd.com/1445/ (or equivalently https://xkcd.com/1801/) as well
> as not considering an option which may be the best one, simply because I do
> not know about it. Any insight or suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
> Davide
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