What is Cyber Patrol?
Cyber Patrol is an Internet filtering, or “censorware”, package. If it’s installed on a computer, it’s supposed to prevent users of the computer from accessing undesirable material on the Internet. The stereotypical use of Cyber Patrol would be for parents to prevent children from viewing pornography on their home computers, although in fact the product is aggressively marketed to schools, libraries, and employers as well as to parents, and it blocks a lot more than just pornography. The list of Web sites and other things blocked by Cyber Patrol is secret. The makers of Cyber Patrol have invested a fair bit of work in preventing anyone, including licensed users of the product, from discovering exactly what it blocks.
