Parents Test Your Internet Filter
Parents, test your Internet Filter. An easy way kids get around the filtering of blocked websites is Google Cache.
I know allot of you parents take the time to implement the parental filters on the internet and with good reason. There is all manner of harmful material on the internet that could be disturbing to a young mind.
There is a simple way to get around internet filters that kids use more than you would imagine. That way is Google’s cache of the website that is being blocked. If the kids access the website through Google’s cache of the website then they will still get to view the objectionable content.
How do they do this?
It’s really quite simple. All you have to do is search on Google for the website using ththe cache tag in front of the website address. For example: cache:sexynude.com, thats all you need. with most monitoring software you can go through the logs and find out but by that time its too late to protect your child from the pornography as they already have seen it. The good news is that if they are old enough to understand the procedure to get around blocked internet websites they are old enough to talk to productively about it.
Test your internet filter, and get one that doesn’t allow this.
If you try this, I suggest you don’t go to a bad site. You don’t need to, the URL always starts out the same. If you go to google.com, and in the search box type in cache:ebay.com it will show you the ‘cache’ that google has of that website. No matter what website you put in, when you click the ’search’ button, the URL address in your browser will start with http://74.125.95.132/search?hl=en&q=cache which is the URL for google searches. In the case of ebay.com, the URL is http://74.125.95.132/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Aebay.com&btnG=Search
Note that the ‘ebay.com’ occurs after the question mark in the URL. Anything after the question mark (in any URL) is called the ‘variables’ and the reason this is a loophole for most filters is that most filters do not look at the variables.