I volunteer at a center for senior citizens. The seniors mostly socialise, but there are computers with internet access as well. They use them mostly to exchance emails with their family and to surf the web.
Lately we had a problem with trojans and browser highjacking etc. And we found lots of links to porn sites in the browser histories. We all know by now the internet is for cat content and for porn, infected computers are not funny, though.
The firewall in the router/modem didn't offer any protection, so we decided to switch to IPfire (www.ipfire.org), it's easy to configure and to maintain. Easy enough for the other volunteers and employees to work with when I'm not around. It works in transparent mode, so there's no need for client configuration and people with their own tablets etc. can't circumvent it. No problems so far, it's up and running for about a week now.
Today I was around to help beginners, only to be greeted by a very angry septuagenarian, complaining bitterly that he couldn't see "his" girls anymore. Looks like we've found our culprit. He got told in clear words that porn surfing is not allowed (and impossible now). WOW, I didn't know that 70-year olds can pout like 3-year olds.
Lately we had a problem with trojans and browser highjacking etc. And we found lots of links to porn sites in the browser histories. We all know by now the internet is for cat content and for porn, infected computers are not funny, though.
The firewall in the router/modem didn't offer any protection, so we decided to switch to IPfire (www.ipfire.org), it's easy to configure and to maintain. Easy enough for the other volunteers and employees to work with when I'm not around. It works in transparent mode, so there's no need for client configuration and people with their own tablets etc. can't circumvent it. No problems so far, it's up and running for about a week now.
Today I was around to help beginners, only to be greeted by a very angry septuagenarian, complaining bitterly that he couldn't see "his" girls anymore. Looks like we've found our culprit. He got told in clear words that porn surfing is not allowed (and impossible now). WOW, I didn't know that 70-year olds can pout like 3-year olds.
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