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Home: Cybersitter 2001
Work: St. Bernard iPrism - At Home: AOL Parental Controls
- At Home: Cyber Patrol 5.0
- Online Extra: Cyber Snoop 4.0
- At Home: Cybersitter 2001
- At Home: McAfee Internet Guard Dog 3.0
- At Home: Net Nanny 4.1
- At Home: Norton Internet Security 2001 Family Edition
- At Work (Software): IM Web Inspector 5.1.4
- At Work (Software): SuperScout Web Filter 3.0
- At Work (Software): SurfinGate 5.6
- At Work (Hardware): 8e6 R2000L
- At Work (Hardware): St. Bernard iPrism
- At Work (Hardware): Telemate.Net NetSpective WebFilter
- Case Studies: Public and Private
- Federally Funded Peep Shows: The Legal Wrangling Over CIPA
- Benchmark Tests: How We Tested
- Scorecard: Content Filtering
- Summary of Features: Content Filtering
If you take a classroom full of kids, several computers, an Internet connection, and a single teacher charged with overseeing it all, you're bound to have a problem. Jacob Miller, the information technology manager at the Val Verde Unified School District in southern California, knows this firsthand, because up until the fall of 1999, the kids in his district had virtually unfettered access to the Web.