For one My S is horrible for all things above. I know kids love it and it can be
just fine. However, you as a parent need to look at what the kids are doing on
the net. Take a look at the kids MS page and see if ANY, I mean ANY thing of
personal information is on their pages. Like the town they live, their ages,
pics of them, and any thing that can bring them or you in harms way. Like the
town should be like "Anytown, USA", Age 999, and so on.
As for some hacking into the system. Yes, install Firestarter through Synaptic.
This program gives you access to the firewall install in Ubie. And yet, if I
recall correct, that you run Xubie on the kids computer. For one upgrade your
system to the newest version. This will up date the firewall with in the Linux
Kernel. With firestarter you can tune up the firewall and can block all cookies.
All so delete your cookies once a while. Most of the part time who do the
hacking are running windows and really cannot see much of your system. However,
true blue hackers use Linux or Unix to hack with. The true blue ones are trying
to hack in bigger things than your little system. They have nothing better to
do, they should get out of Mom's and Dad's basement, and find a human company.
Cripes! Are they tired of their hand all ready. Geeze!
So when the kids are on line on the system. Ask them to look at their My Space
page. Tell them the truth and tell them why. There is perverts and they are
ready to prey on them. All so look at any thing they are doing. If they give any
type of personal information on the net.