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We
are both great fans of PCs for children and the wealth of knowledge
available to them over the Internet. We believe that no other
tools in recent years have held so much promise for exciting
self-guided education and exploration.
But we are also working parents. Like you, we’re concerned
about some of the risks our families face when our children
enter into cyberspace. If we could be with our children every
minute they are online, maybe we wouldn't be as concerned. We
could be there, watching, protecting, monitoring what they are
seeing and helping them understand that not everything –
or everyone – is as innocent as they are.
If you are a working parent, or if your child has access to
the PC out of your view at any time, you understand. We want
to believe the best, but be vigilant about the potential worst.
At the same time, we don’t want our young children or teenagers
to think we don’t trust them, or inhibit them from exploring
all the good things the Internet offers.
The simple fact is that you can’t be beside your child
or teenager every minute they are online. So what can you do?
Filters are one line of defense. Yet filters do not help with
the risks, so widely documented by the media, that are presented
by e-mail and especially chat rooms, where predators may lurk,
waiting to start building an inappropriate "relationship"
with your young child or teenager. What seems innocent at first
can slowly evolve into a real risk to your family’s safety.
That’s why we created Safety-Net. It operates behind the
scenes, capturing and recording whatever is on screen –
e-mails, chat rooms, images, etc. – at times and intervals
you select. The screen images are stored in a password-protected
file on the PC that only you can access. Once it is installed
no one knows it’s there, except for you. And only you can
check it.
Safety-Net on your PC can be your eyes when you can’t physically
be at your child or teenager’s side.
We think it’s a valuable extra measure of security that
every family should have Safety-Net. |
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