Re: Belkin router parental control feature no longer works

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In <dmbd3b$8jo$1@domitilla.aioe.org> on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:36:20 -0500,
"dejablues" <deja.blues@gmail.com> wrote:

><perfb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1133021590.229258.35270@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Anyone use the Belkin router's parental control feature? Provided by,
>> I think, 'Cerebian' or somesuch company. It used to work pretty good,
>> now I cant get the login screen or anything.
>
>Why don't you *personally* monitor your kids web access, ie: look over their
>shoulder once in a while?

Good suggestion, but it takes much more than that.

>If you're such a great parent, why don't you trust your kids (or your wife)
>online?

Because they aren't yet mature.

>Haven't you taught them what's good and what's bad?

Of course.

>You don't trust
>them?

Not entirely.

>All this "parental control feature" crap is just that. Crap.

I respectfully disagree.

>If your kids
>are in junior high, or high school, they *know* how to get around your
>'parental control features".

Not here.

>These controls are no substitute for actually
>TALKING TO and GETTING TO KNOW your kids and WHAT THEY ARE INTO.

Been there; done that; but it takes much more than that.

>Maybe it doesn't work because your kids (who are undoubtably smarter than
>you) have hacked it!

Maybe you're overly simplistic and rude.

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