How can Covenant Eyes monitor all the ways in which one can reach the Internet on an Android phone? There is no point in monitoring the stock browser if most apps installed on the phone allow one to reach the Internet unmonitored. The apps themselves may be benign, but the browser contained within the app is not.

I strongly support providing a rooted Android version that monitors all Internet traffic, coming from all apps and browsers. Android is the only phone operating system on the market on which such solution is possible — Covenant Eyes members don’t have other phone options on the market (iPhone is susceptible to the same attack).

But I don’t think this is the real answer anyway… for one thing what about multiple CE users? I’m not the only user on my system, I have a multi-seat Ubuntu 10.04 setup where my son and I work the same machine at the same time with dumb terminals.

The multi-user thing is also a problem with the notion of router-based CE setups. Somehow the router needs to do VPN auth or some such, to be able to track separate user accounts.

I think the real answer is for CE to open their API and allow other software to be built on top of it. By “open” I don’t mean free, you would still need a paid account and use Oauth or similar to authenticate to it.

I used the same analogy of Israel’s idolatry in the wilderness a few years ago in a post I wrote called, “Slavery to Pornography.” I’d love to hear your thoughts about it.

The main reason for this is that while the Kindle Fire is an Android Tablet, it also isn’t. It has been heavily customized and has had the stock Android browser replaced the custom Amazon Silk browser – this means the interfaces provided to us in Android to interact with the activities of the browser don’t exist on the Fire. We do continue to look for ways to bring full compatibility to the Kindle Fire in our Android application but we don’t have any sort of timeline on that just yet.