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How I Blocked Unwanted Websites On My Home WiFi
Building a web filtering WiFi Access Point for free using a Raspberry Pi
Background
I recently attended Lascon, a security conference held annually in Austin, Texas each year. Whilst there, I was inspired by one of its speakers, John Bambenek, a security expert with ThreatSTOP who secured his home network with two Raspberry Pi’s running a mixture of open source and proprietary software.
As a father of three, I’d been meaning to tighten up our home network for some time, and having a Raspberry Pi 3 kicking around I thought it about time I did something about it.
Wireless Access Points 101
A wireless access point provides the network name you see advertised when you try and connect to the WiFi from your device. If you connect to the Internet via WiFi at home right now, you are probably connecting to your home routers WiFi network.
Your Raspberry Pi can provide that same service without any additional hardware, and it’s this access point you’ll be asking your kids to connect to.
At the time of writing, a Raspberry Pi is will cost you around $40, and the software I describe is all open source (free to use).
