Tools
- https allows websites to encrypt traffic between the browser and the server. This helps protect against stealing passwords.
- Filtering at the computer, with filtering software, such as Net Nanny or OnlineFamily.Norton from Symantec. See Parental controls.
- DNS filtering
- Website filtering at the ISP or country level
Read more about this topic: Internet Safety
Famous quotes containing the word tools:
“Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)