Thanks for the advice. Back from a nice fast morning bike ride I think I can now deal with this from a safe perspective.
I'd have thought most teenage boys know more about the internet (and associated technology) than their parents
Not in this instance. His dad is just too trusting. But he was caught out via the squid proxy logs!
That's almost the bit I find more scary – he *knows* that all the traffic goes through a squid proxy, because he has to configure the proxy settings in his browser. And they all know the proxy is there so that I can monitor what's going on!
Do I need to draw a picture, or what! Aeerrghghgh!
If you have a teenage son that isn't constantly ****, tbh you should probably take it back to the shop, there's something wrong with it.
That is certainly true.
Bit of a difference between what you can find on a 14 yr old's iPod these days and a tattered old copy of penthouse or something.
That is also true. I haven't been through the logs in detail (and I'm not going to) but we now have some pretty bizarre laws in this country. If he's accidentally downloaded a picture of some hairy bloke fornicating with an octopus then that is now *illegal* and I get to go to jail and be put on the sex offenders register! Crazy but true. (It's the octopus that's the problem, not the hair).
So:
– talking to; taking the pi55 sounds like a good idea
– set proxy to paranoid
– wipe PC and install netbsd – he can surf the internet again once he's figured out how to compile firefox from source.
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And relax.