... parents who want to control where their children can and cannot go. For example, a program called CYBERsitter allows parents to block out a list of sites that have been deemed unacceptable. Opponents of Internet blocking feel that these types of software don't block everything they should; for example, a college student's web page containing nude pictures of herself was not blocked. These opponents also ... proposal, fear of stumbling across offensive sites is still a concern. The odds are slim, however, that a user would come across a sexually explicit site by accident (Quittner). A ta...

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... staging grounds for hackers. At first, "hacker" was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do. In the seventy's, John Draper makes a long distance call for free by blowing a precise tone into a telephone that tells the phone system to open a line. Draper discovered the whistle as a give away in a box ... becomes more difficult to detect your computer from outside. Depending on your tasks, anti-virus software allows for making choice among several security levels from complete protection up to total block of all ...

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