How Kids Bypass Web Filters
December 20th, 2008 | by admin |Children, whether at school or home, will try to bypass web filters that are placed between them and the internet. Not all, but most have either a rebellious streak (remember yours) or a curiosity that will kill the cat.
Internet filtering has become big business for some companies, providing parents with peace of mind. But, is that peace justified? Are there ways for children to bypass internet filters without their parents knowing?
Ask a teen. They will tell you that there is more than one way to bypass most filters. Maybe they catch you typing in the password for them, maybe they use a web proxy to bypass the school filter, whatever way, some ingenious little bugger at school will figure it out and tell all his friends.
In particular web based proxies have been a problem for most internet filters. There are new ones created on a regular basis. Some free speech and children’s rights advocates believe they are doing children a favor by allowing them to bypass the protection a loving parent has provided for his or her child. It is much like purposely leaving the back door wide open while the parent deadbolts the front door and thinks all is well.
That is why you need an Internet filtering service and not just free software. First of all, the free internet filters can’t keep up with the ever changing internet. They have little or no budget for continued research and monitoring of new sites. You need a team of professionals, whose job it is to monitor what’s going on and daily make the changes needed to protect your children online.
An internet filtering service that combines filtering, monitoring, reporting and continued research and development is the only thing that is going to help. Clean Internet is one such company. In business for over 10 years, Clean Internet is company that knows where the internet has been and where it is going. Protect your kids today with a reliable filter that doesn’t have password that can be compromised and won’t let web proxies bypass the internet filter.
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2 Responses to “How Kids Bypass Web Filters”
By crosstecdoug on Dec 22, 2008 | Reply
The Department of Justice recently unveiled new parental education campaigns. One of the PSAs, entitled “Know Where They Go,” http://www.knowwheretheygo.org/en/ stresses that it is important that parents MONITOR what sites their children visit and who they are talking to. Studies by the Pew Internet research group and monitoring software vendor Spectorsoft.com agree – they show that low cost monitoring software products such as Spector Pro and eBlaster.com are more effective than Web Filtering applications in protecting kids on the web. They will detect if, and how, children get around filters using proxy servers. They will record everything the do – every web site, web searches (for example proxy). You can set keyword alerts for terms such as suicide and proxy and be notified each time they are found.
By Anelly on Mar 26, 2009 | Reply
children are looking for more and more methods to bypass filter and to unblock websites