Chapter 15. Parental Controls

We have seen how easy it is for a hacker, a company, or a government to invade your privacy. You can take many steps to protect your information and your computer. What about protecting others in your household? If you are running a home network or even just have one machine that everyone shares, you really need to be concerned about who is using the Internet. If others in your house can compromise your information by modifying your computer and protection methods, you might as well have no protections in place. Your kids can be particularly dangerous to your home connectivity through inadvertent changes they make or threats to themselves by how they use the Internet.

Kids use the Internet for various reasons, including ...

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