Cyber Safety Links for Parents
Materials
Awesome Library Browser for Children (ALBC) provides homes, libraries, and schools with a minimalist but effective method of keeping K-6 children from being exposed to hard core adult sites–without the use of censorship lists.
Instead of using lists, Awesome Library Browser for Children looks for a designation that virtually all hard core adult Web sites put on their Web pages so they can be found by search engines. It happens to be a designation that other sites do not use. ALBC also offers “green space” to ensure that children can find what they need easily.
Provides screening of searches, using the Lycos search engine.
Papers
Provides a discussion of methods for controlling access to inappropriate materials for children. Also provides excellent links.
Provides articles and news related to censorship.
Reviews PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for best filtering software.
Provides results of a study of the effectiveness of some of the most commonly used filtering programs. Programs tested included AOL Parental Controls, Cyber Patrol, SurfControl (SurfWatch), SafeServer, and N2H2 (Bess).
Provides Internet protection called Kid Code Check. Free software.
Provides methods for controlling access to inappropriate materials for children.
In a comparison of some of the most popular filtering programs for child safety, recommends Cybersitter 2002.
“Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.” 10-06
Determines your IP address. If your IP address is the same after you have turned off both your computer and your modem, then you have a static IP address and should turn both off each day to reduce the chance that an intruder will associate your IP address with you. If your IP address changes each time, this is not necessary.
Determines your IP address. If your IP address is the same after you have turned off both your computer and your modem, then you have a static IP address and should turn both off each day to reduce the chance that an intruder will associate your IP address with you. If your IP address changes each time, this is not necessary.
Purchase Resources
Provides software that filters offensive material from the Web.
CyberSitter is rated as one of the most effective at filtering programs for blocking adult sites on the Web. Received a PC Magazine Editor’s Choice Award. Awesome Libary does not endorse this product, but provides it as an example.