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:
“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
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—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
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