When geeks grow up to be parents, they often end up having geek kids of their own to raise. Those little geeklings, as cute as they are, end up spending a lot of time on the computer, which is equal parts gratifying and frightening to their parental units.
Safety is an issue - we want to protect kids from the so-called online predator, but sometimes we just want them to shut the damn lappy off and go outside for some old fashioned exercise.
Kids today are smart, and can get around Windows passwords, and internet filtering programs pretty easily. Proxies and workarounds exist for even the most draconian firewalls, but the KidSafe key protects your computer and your kids with a physical key. It’s stronger, more reliable, and more convenient than passwords. It can’t be uninstalled or worked around - even by booting to safe-mode.
They’ve even got processes to keep your computer from booting to a live-cd or other boot device.
US $59.99.
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KidSafe Security Key
July 26, 2007 by Rich | 1 Comment
In Security, Computer, Office
Katherine on August 26th, 2007 at 11:46 am
This is literally the only thing that’ll keep our six-year-old off the computer; we want him to develop some other hobbies too. Seriously, whoever invented this is a genius, we’ll be using it until he’s at least eighteen