Software for concerned parents – how children surf safely – Süddeutsche.de

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• With special software, parents can control where and how long their children surf the Internet.
• The problem : Even a simple Google search provides instructions to bypass this protection
• More important than digital blocks is an analog of trust

The good news first: Who the security software one of the most prestigious manufacturers: Bitdefender or F-Secure uses on his computer, can thus reasonably sure keep the worst dirt from the net of his child. And also for the time limit to determine the programs that are allowed to use the computer a child, there is useful software that can be in some cases control of the go

And now the bad news:. A does not constitute an insurmountable obstacle of the child must be a highly talented hackers to crack it -. There are, after all, the Internet. And there are already found among the top hits of a google search for the relevant protection software references to explanatory videos showing step by step shows you how to not only cancel out the lock. No, the kids learn there even matter how they do that without the parents mitkriegen of something.

To make sense, then, is about to install a child protection filter, the less you can rely on the expensive and tedious selling furnished protection software actually performs its function. And if your child does not manage alone, to circumvent the ban, it might fetches friends to the plan have the necessary tweaks.

The children receive a fixed time budget

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The protection programs fulfill three main functions: They are by block filters unwanted Internet content, what programs but fail to 100 percent and often also blocks harmless sites. They should also prevent children about installing on smartphones or tablets themselves or programs can make purchases within apps – which happens especially when free game apps. These blockages access generally reliable. The third job is the time to regulate who may spend a child on the computer, and select the programs to which it can access it.

A specialist in the latter task is for example the program ” Parental Control “of the Company Salfeld (about 30 euros). Parents can specify in detail which programs may use a child as long. And to make matters not to be as rigid, the child receives even a time budget that can manage it yourself. So parents can approximately determine that a game may only be used for half an hour every day, but the word processing program is longer available.

A trusting relationship helps most

Also, to some routers – those small devices, about the PC connects to the Internet – can be set parental controls that are ebenfallls but surmountable. In more and more households, there is also a variety of Internet-enabled devices – from mobile phones via iPods, tablets to PCs and laptops. All have in check and in view, is difficult.

It is better than a technical solution, therefore, a relationship of trust with the children. That does not mean that one should read along their chats. Interested in what the children do, they want to play in a game, to be available as a contact person, often helps better than impersonal software that the screen can be black after the specified time.

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