If you want to keep tabs on who your son or daughter talks to on the Internet, there are steps you can take as a parent.
COMPUTER SECURITY TIPS FOR PARENTS
- Put in place a required BIOS Password for the main family laptop or desktop.
- This prevents your kid from just using a LiveCD to get around the parental monitoring software that you should have installed on your Windows or Mac laptop.
- Install a hardware keylogger on your family laptop/desktop
- Install monitoring software on your family’s devices.
- Make a habit of checking the logs!
- Configure the parental controls in your Wifi router
- Find out your device’s MAC address.
- Find out your son or daughter’s device’s MAC address.
- Access your home WiFi router
- Type “192.168.1.1” and enter your login information
- Most of the time the username will be “admin” and the password will be blank
- Be sure to change the router password (which is different from the WiFi password) to something that you can remember but cannot be guessed easily.
- Type “192.168.1.1” and enter your login information
- After you have accessed the home WiFi router’s there should be a tab for parental controls,
- Set the controlling computer as your laptop’s MAC address
- Set the child computers to the MAC addresses of your children’s devices.
- This includes iPads and iPhones.
- The best approach is to set the access controls to block access during certain times of the day.
- The only way around this is to install a MAC address changer (such as MADMACS)
- This means that you should setup their Windows accounts with reduced permissions.
- You can also configure parental controls on the iPod Touch, iPad, and the iPhone.
- Settings ==> General ==> Restrictions
- Put a band-aid or masking tape over the laptop’s camera.
- Be familiar with your software and track who has accessed what sites and forums.
- Be wary if they are accessing sites like 4Chan.org and Omegle or other video chat sites.
- Move the computer to a well-trafficked area so that the user and the monitor are easily observed.
- Sit down with your children and have them demonstrate their Internet savvy to gauge if they have been “adventurous” already.
- Call and speak to the parents of your children’s friends to make sure they are vigilant when your child is visiting.
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