Its a good idea in principle but when the kids want to communicate with other friends who don’t go to the same school etc they are going to fall back to the easier 'sexier' solution (which they know isn't monitored).
MSN Messenger being 1 example - even if you remove the client there is always the web version. I suppose you could block the page but where does it all end.
What I should have done is lock the machines down from the start. Close down all ports etc - basically run a corporate environment on their machines. Unfortunately I don’t have the Admin skills to do that under XP - maybe there is a market there? Machines which are preconfigured and locked for kids with an easy interface to control access to different areas.
That must be quite straight forward for a corporate system administrator to configure after all if they can stop those senior managers from meddling they should be able to stop kids ;-)
Chris,
Its a good idea in principle but when the kids want to communicate with other friends who don’t go to the same school etc they are going to fall back to the easier 'sexier' solution (which they know isn't monitored).
MSN Messenger being 1 example - even if you remove the client there is always the web version. I suppose you could block the page but where does it all end.
What I should have done is lock the machines down from the start. Close down all ports etc - basically run a corporate environment on their machines. Unfortunately I don’t have the Admin skills to do that under XP - maybe there is a market there? Machines which are preconfigured and locked for kids with an easy interface to control access to different areas.
That must be quite straight forward for a corporate system administrator to configure after all if they can stop those senior managers from meddling they should be able to stop kids ;-)