I've built a child monitoring app with mitmproxy and WireGuard
Hi! I've been working on a child monitoring service and I'd really appreciate your input on it. The structure of the service is pretty technically interesting. It sets up a wireguard VPN on the child's Windows account, and then routes the traffic to our server. From there, we use mitmproxy to break open the TLS, inspect the packets, and then re-encrypt them. Currently all images are passed through an ImageNetV2 model, and for sites like reddit or google, individual links/communities are analyzed and we remove the content if it violates the filters without impacting the overall browsing…
I've built a child monitoring app with mitmproxy and WireGuard launched on June 30, 2024 with 10 votes, #1,097 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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This child monitoring service for Windows uses a VPN and traffic interception to filter web content accessed by children. It analyzes images with machine learning and evaluates individual links on sites like Reddit and Google against customizable filters, removing inappropriate content while preserving normal browsing. Parents can set up rules, and the service plans to add advanced content filtering powered by a language model.
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Hi! I've been working on a child monitoring service and I'd really appreciate your input on it. The structure of the service is pretty technically interesting. It sets up a wireguard VPN on the child's Windows account, and then routes the traffic to our server. From there, we use mitmproxy to break open the TLS…
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