Tales from the Blog

Do you have a list of websites I should be blocking?

July 19, 2015

By simply plugging a Kibosh in as your primary router hardcore objectionable content on the Internet will be inaccessible from any device, and you don’t need to configure anything to make this happen. Now that the really bad stuff is blocked, we can focus on the more subjective content like bikinis, drugs, social networks, etc. These you can either block individually by entering the website(s) into your blacklist, or en masse by selecting categories of content to block. All easily…

About the WiFi Schedule

July 14, 2015

Scott

How-to

The Kibosh’s WiFi Scheduler is a great tool that gives you the ability to easily turn wireless off each night. Why would we want to do this? 1. To enforce global internet access restrictions. 2. To reduce wifi signal exposure (if you are concerned about that). 3. Added security, wireless networks are a target for hackers and script kiddies. However, turning WiFi off disables Internet for all wireless devices which might not be what you’re after. To turn the Internet…

Google SafeSearch

July 13, 2015

Scott

News & Information

If you use Google search, and most of us do, you may have noticed that the search_term_filter, Web Usage Monitor and block_google_images have stopped working on Google recently. This is due to Google systematically enforcing HTTPS on all of their sites, and HTTPS breaks content filtering. With our router firmware v2.0 (now on v3.2.2 – get it here) we could enforce SafeSearch on Google by removing HTTPS so that we could apply URL filtering. We did this using a method…

New name, same product.

July 13, 2015

Scott

News & Information

Hello Everyone, We are moving from BUCTools.com to Kibosh.net. Nothing has changed with the web filtering service (outside of Google making changes on their end) and nothing is wrong with the company. We simply had some issues with our hosting provider, and frankly never really liked BUC Tools that much, although I know some of you did. I think the main issue with us (the founders) was that BUC Tools wasn’t our idea, and we looked at it as more…

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February 25, 2013

Jason Myers

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February 18, 2013

Jason Myers

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February 8, 2013

Jason Myers

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February 6, 2013

Jason Myers

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February 5, 2013

Jason Myers

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