There's a good description of this at arstechnica.com.



The above image is the webslice, a button on the toolbar that expands to this window. There are two other items, one is a search box item to push searches through one of two sets of sites. The last one is a few bookmarks in your favourites which do much the same thing as the webslice.

The whole browser is available for download. Those who do not want the whole browser because they already have IE8 installed can simply grab one or more of the following CEOP tools for IE8:

• Add the 'Click CEOP' button to your toolbar,
• Add CEOP Search to your toolbar
• Add Internet Safety and Security Search to your toolbar.

Nothing to stop children going where they should not, nor searching for what they should not. As arstechnica says, this isn't going to stop dangers, but it could help if children get into trouble, it's similar to the button to CEOP I've placed on all our sites.

This should be made plain to parents: you still have to keep an eye over their shoulder, keep asking who they are talking to, keep drumming in that they should be careful.
# Posted by steve hooker at 10/2/10; 11:31:19 AM to the Psychology dept.
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