CNET Blog: IMSafer scans your kids' IMs for Foleys

[Xipe Totec]

Part of this solution is software that you download to your computer. It monitors IM traffic for text that's likely coming from (or going to) a predator or pedophile and sends an e-mail alert to the person who set up the service. IMSafer does not allow parents to spy on everything their child is saying in IM (who has time to read IM logs anyway?), only the context around words and phrases that it flags as potentially dangerous. Parents should also know that IMSafer is not a totally stealthed application. While the monitor runs very unobtrusively, it can been found and disabled if your child knows how to do such things.

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I tried out the system by telling a shopping bot I wanted to meet in the real world. It accurately flagged the text and sent me an e-mail alert. Since IMSafer uses lexical analysis, it can't be perfect, but over time it should get even better at spotting dangerous communication. Brandon Watson, IMSafer's founder, is sure that the system would have flagged the explicit IMs that congressman Mark Foley sent to a former page, had it been installed on the page's PC.

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Foley is now used as a noun to describe an on-line sex predator. :rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. a "Foley" is a pedophile's IM invite to a young lad, is it? I like it.

I like it a lot.

[Justyce]

2. Too funny - I love it! If I

ground my daughter or "boss her around" too much, or pretty much do anything to piss her off, she calls me a george bush... and she'll call her little republican friend that too as a "bad word" -- lol. No better way to tick a republican off than to call them a george bush as a dirty word...