Parents not monitoring kids? online activities

[Computer News]

Every now and then an issue arises that sparks parents’ interest in what their children are getting up to online.This can be a news story or something they may have heard from other parents, but the good thing is that they take more control over children’s online activities.However this may not last, probably due to [...]

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[TheCoder]

Pre-teen kids should never really be allowed to use the internet unsupervised and i'd certainly never allow them to have an internet connected computer in a bedroom etc.

Filtering software is worse than useless. Any determined 8 year old could get past most of them in minutes. Kids actually swap bypass techniques at school and can be quite knowledgable about networking etc

I'd also ban all pre-teen kids from having mobile phones or at least limit them to simple phones that dont have internet connectivity. Tbh, the majority of kids just dont need mobile phones !

[Jon007]

lol, agreed, at 14 i was hacking into my school network, using programs i shouldn't be able to, playing games that weren't "accesible" pretty much getting access to all the files and all the servers, less than a year later and they completely changed the systems so everything was tracked etc with an integrated system, and they told me exactly what i'd looked at...they still couldn't tell me how i got in the system lol