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Will you install internet filter and monitoring tool for your household's computers?
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Ziibos (12)
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Will you install internet filter and monitoring tool for your household's computers?
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a) Children, especially teenagers, are much better at circumventing technology than adults are at designing such technology. Currently they're using usb-sticks to share content they've downloaded from home/internet cafe's/smart-phones.
b) It's much easier to be computer-savvy and actually monitor the uses children put computers to.
Common tricks kids/teenagers tend to use are in order of increasing tech-savvy: set up their history so that there is always an innocuous site one click backwards; fast use of minimise keyboard shortcuts; quick ctrl-tabs to switch between maximised windows (top window then hids all the windows below); set the toolbar to autohide so window titles are hidden; open lots of windows so that the toolbar only shows a grouped "Internet Explorer" and not site-titles; use Google-cache to bypass site-based filtering software; use of anonymous proxy sites.
Most effective method of controlling such behaviour as a teacher: "Use the computers appropriately or you're logged off, two warnings only. No I don't care if this is for an assignment, if you're mucking around, you're not doing your assignment, and someone else can use the computer."