Hi Tom,
Certainly your heart is in a good place.
This would be really difficult to do... (ignoring the broader
implications from the social and societal aspects for the moment), if
I build a site that can access your USB devices looking for a key,
then the bad guys can certainly do the same thing to rip though your
computer and get all kinds of information about you and your teens
and turn around and sell it or misuse it. Browser builders are trying
very hard to prevent this sort of thing to protect your privacy.
However, the tech is out there to use a key that must be connected to
use A Single Computer. You may be able to work with that, but from a
security standpoint this is a panacea that is really only serving to
lower your guard, making you think things are safe while in fact the
opposite is true, your safety is at MORE risk. Almost like some of
the policies being put in place by an administration bent on playing
to the same press that they took over a while back.
Jerry
On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Tom Guenthner wrote:
> Here is a project..
>
> Is there a way to develop a web site that one would need a ?key? to
> get access? The key would be something would plug into the USB
> slot. Not sure how difficult something like that would be to develop.
>
> The idea is to have a safer web site for teens to access instead if
> sites like ?myplace.com? and such places like that. This way one
> might be able to keep sex predators away from our teens?
>
> Any ideas???
>
>
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