[dba-Tech] Child's play

Kathryn Bassett kathryn at bassett.net
Tue Sep 28 16:59:41 CDT 2004


http://www.netnanny.com/

My sister uses it to control her (now 14 yr old) son's surfing. He's reasonably computer saavy but was never able to bypass it since he didn't have a clue about the password. Not really even sure if he tried to bypass it, but if he did, he was not successful.

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Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
"Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
kathryn at bassett.net
http://bassett.net   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com 
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
> Sent: 28 Sep 2004 12:51 pm
> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Child's play
> 
> Hi folks
> 
> A colleague found her 9 year-old daughter Googling a rude 
> word the other day. Not such a prob but it got her thinking 
> about protecting her child from accessing porn sites, getting 
> rude popups and so on. And then there are chatrooms. God, a 
> whole nasty world of stuff that I never worried about cos the 
> PC in our house is very public and anyway mine were much 
> older by the time they came to use it. Anyway, does anyone 
> with kids have any products (preferably free or dead cheap) 
> they can recommend for this kind of issue.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 
> 
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