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Defeating Junior's Sex Surfing

Posted Jul 5th 2007 2:02PM by TMZ Staff

KidSafeFor children, the Internet is a glorious sea of knowledge. You can find limitless information on an unlimited number of subjects and people. You can also find people subjected to an unlimited number of positions.

No matter how smart you think you are, face it, when it comes to technology, your kids are smarter than you. You can change passwords and install all the tracking programs all you want -- they're going to defeat them. Fortunately, you can now lock your computer with the KidSafe Security Key.

Once the KidSafe software is installed, it cannot be uninstalled and you must have the key inserted into the USB port of the computer to make your PC function. Even the old standbys of booting in safe-mode or from a disk can be disabled.

Your kids will only use the computer when you want them to -- and your presence is the best security. Maybe.

Tags: childproof, gadget, kidsafe, technology, think geek, ThinkGeek

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1. Hey...I like that. I'll take one, please.

Posted at 5:27PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Call me crazy

2. stupidd inventions.. whatever happened to simple fun!?

(click mahh name)

Posted at 5:36PM on Jul 5th 2007 by CLICK HERE

3. Though at first I thought this was really cool. I then thought. My son is 8. He's on the computer all the time, when I tell him to get off the computer, he listens. This should be renamed, Teensafe....because if you have to use this on your "Kid" then I would starting questioning your parenting skills rather then anything else....

Posted at 5:42PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Alena

4. Sounds like a great invention. Hey lady your kid is 8 just wait.
He is a good boy now...so is my teenager, but it isn't all about xxx rated sites.
The kid's have IM, Facebook, myspace... all sorts of fun forums to look, at chat on, and when it is homework time do you really think you are going to sit in the same room with him all through high school making sure he/she isn't online doing frivolous stuff when they should be reading for school or studying things in A BOOK for once.
I think the gadget sounds great.
I hope it works on Macs.

Posted at 5:52PM on Jul 5th 2007 by curious in connecticut

5. Kids are going to figure this thing out in no time, again your kids are smarter than you.
The best way to keep kids of porn and or being talked to by a predator is to monitor their
computer activity by installing monitoring programs, and keeping the computer out of
their bedroom and putting it in the family room where they can be supervised better.

Posted at 6:13PM on Jul 5th 2007 by BOEING 787-8

6. usually the mom and pop computer doesn't have much on it but some pictures and music. burn everything to disk or ext HD and reformat the computer without their knowledge and put back everything the way it was............... minus the mom and dads' protective key

Cheers :P

Posted at 6:28PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Glimmerdrive

7. Why cut your kids of from their social network? Here children are on myspace, arto, bebo and whatever they call themselves from when they are 12 years old and we program our firewalls instead so they tell us when forbidden words are used.

We install backdoors to see if we have normal children with normal interest like porn and relationships etc. (hopefully with the opposite gender, but knowledge as soon as possible is better than surprise.)

It is so much easier to spy in your home than following them around the city to neighbourhoods where a marine is needed for escort.

Posted at 6:40PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Jonas Hansen

8. Agree with so much of the feedback here! I have a 10-year-old girl and and a 7-year-old boy (whom I trust and still monitor how they use the computer). To me a big problem is that they know how to Google, since we use this as a research tool for school. That, coupled with the fact that my husband and I find the parental controls too restrictive for the way WE use the computer. Maybe we aren't using a good one -- any suggestions out there???

Anyway, my kids know they can type in and search for any word that comes into their little heads, which unfortunately can only get more dangerous with each morsel of knowledge they gain. (My 10-year-old will have sex ed next year and all we've talked about so far is periods... ironically, we haven't had the Santa Clause talk yet!) The other day my daughter and a friend Googled "girls rule" and it came up with pictures of girls in bras within the top 5 results (!?!). What's up with that?

I think even when you monitor them, and I know it gets more difficult as they get older, they will search for and find things on the internet that their friends tell them about. My daughter has friends with older siblings so they are much more knowledgeable about stuff like myspace and the like than my kid is -- you can't stop them from hearing about it and wanting to do it when they know it's happening in their social circles.

TO ALL PARENTS OUT THERE: Pay attention to what your kids are doing socially and under your own roof and guide them the best you can -- they are our future!

Posted at 6:58PM on Jul 5th 2007 by ...

9. Personally, I go low tech. When my daughter isn't allowed on the computer I simply remove the power cord. Works great!

Posted at 8:28PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Lisa

10. Yes....2 please!

Posted at 9:30PM on Jul 5th 2007 by Nurse1211

11. UGH! TMZ! Another ad crammed in with the otherwise glorious celebrity gossip. QUIT IT!

Alternatively, if you guys are going to continue to do this, at least get the copy and verb-tense correct. This is clearly not a TMZ article.

Posted at 10:39PM on Jul 5th 2007 by adbustah

12. Capitalism breeds its own destruction. Marx knew it 150 years ago. This device will make some money for someone, but the Revolution is coming !

Posted at 11:26PM on Jul 5th 2007 by lodger

13. Porn? Drugs? Booze? Your car keys? If your kids want it, no matter how well you hide it or try to hide them from it, they will find it. One way or another, come on folks don't you remeber the legnths you went to to find out about all the things your parents forbade??

TALK TO YOUR KIDS PEOPLE!! Parenting is about teaching and comunication not control.

Posted at 9:50AM on Jul 6th 2007 by Irish Princess

14. Hey, #8 - what you ought to do is set up your computer for separate users with separate passwords. Thus, no parental restrictions on YOUR user/password, but you can put them on the kid's user/password. Give each kid their own user/password, and you can keep 'em locked out of the places where you don't want them AND you'll have a "user specific" history for each kid.

Also, if you leave yourselves as "administrator" with NO RIGHTS to the other users - allow them the right to save to a memory stick, not the computer - then you can't end up with a machine reformatted as suggested by Mr. Helpful #6.

Backdoor programs are EASILY disabled; this device looks more effective.

Sometimes even the BEST kids get adventurous - I don't want mine reading BS propaganda any more than I want them seeing p*rnography. In both cases, I want to be present to explain what's going on to my kid - I certainly don't want a stranger explaining these things.

For those of you who are less technically-minded, Ms. "I snatch the cord" #9 has the answer! A co-worker of mine used to snatch the DSL cord when his teen started surfing the web behind his back; when Dad went to be, he took the cord to bed, too. Solved the problem.

Posted at 11:46AM on Jul 6th 2007 by EastCoast Mommy

15. What happens when you lose it?

Posted at 9:02AM on Jul 7th 2007 by Adam Smith

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