rvk said:
I have a soon to be teenager that has figured out how to delete browser
history. Is there a way I can disable this feature? I do not want anyone to
be able to delete browsing history. Can only find ways to delete info, not
KEEP it without special permission to delete.
Well, if you're on the right sort of router, you can use features in the
router to detect sites that teenager has been to (presuming that you
personally don't go to play{boy,girl}.com and similar sites. This has
the advantage that you can password protect your router so place it
beyond the reach of all but the most inventive teenagers. Hardware
solutions are usually the best.
You could always threaten to fund the appropriate router out of
deductions from teenager's allowance if history deleting continues.
There may be mechanisms for forcing access through a proxy, and using
the proxy to record site usage. Is this a shared system? It's easier if
teenager is on their own system, so you can apply rules to one specific
PC. You would block teenagers PC from direct access to the net, then
force them through a proxy on another system. That proxy would record
URL's visited. Of course, teenager will then start using a 3rd party
proxy on a non-standard port number. People in police states do this all
the time. I've even supplied such proxies on my own PC for colleagues in
repressive states. Don't tell me teenagers name, or I might be tempted
to offer a fee-based proxy.
The main problem is that teenagers are usually more computer savvy than
parent. I work in the IT industry, and my colleagues have a continual
battle controlling their offspring.
