{"id":557,"date":"2008-01-31T22:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T05:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2008\/01\/31\/internet-safety\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T22:02:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T05:02:45","slug":"internet-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/internet-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tru&#8217;s been digging on Star Wars videos on YouTube lately. That&#8217;s fine, but he&#8217;s also figuring out the address bar in a browser and just kinda being the 6-year old information sponge he&#8217;s supposed to be. All good. But a little worrisome since you never know what he&#8217;ll come across (no, I don&#8217;t sit right next to him the entire time he&#8217;s on the computer).<\/p>\n<p>Amy and I&#8217;ve been kinda wondering out loud when\/if we should get some kind of &#8216;kid safe&#8217; software or whatever. Instead, I ran across the coolest alternative ever. And it&#8217;s not just for kid safety, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opendns.com\">OpenDNS<\/a> is a free service that basically routes your Internet connection through their servers. The benefits to this are multi-fold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Super easy adult site blocking<\/li>\n<li>Phishing protection using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phishtank.com\/\">PhishTank<\/a> (which they also operate)<\/li>\n<li>Domain correction (if you enter craigslist.og, it&#8217;ll correct it to craigslist.org)<\/li>\n<li>Domain whitelisting (in case you want to include a site that&#8217;s otherwise blocked)<\/li>\n<li>Domain blocking&#8230;you can even add a custom message about why it&#8217;s blocked<\/li>\n<li>Network shortcuts&#8230;this is really cool. If you&#8217;re on our wifi and you type &#8216;bh&#8217; (without quotes) into a browser address bar, you&#8217;ll be taken to http:\/\/bikehacks.com. You can set up as many of these shortcuts as you like. They&#8217;ll work on all the computers on your network.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there are lots of options behind all that stuff, which makes it super flexible in terms of usage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really stoked about this. I know my kids are protected, and since we leave our wifi open for our neighbors, I know their kids are protected too. Setup is totally easy&#8211;they&#8217;ve got great tutorials for a ton of different routers. Our basic fios router was in their list and I pretty much followed the instructions word for word. Had to change settings on both the wifi and the Ethernet parts, but the whole setup took about 5 minutes, tops. Easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tru&#8217;s been digging on Star Wars videos on YouTube lately. That&#8217;s fine, but he&#8217;s also figuring out the address bar in a browser and just kinda being the 6-year old information sponge he&#8217;s supposed to be. All good. 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