Net Nanny

One of the big questions I get from people, Amanda, is they want to know, okay, I can take care of the... privacy and cybersecurity for myself, but what do I do with my children? And I thought this would be an interesting time to go back to some of the early software that you were involved with.

Maybe you could just summarize for people, what was your relation to this early net nanny software and its successor? I think it's called Zift.

What was that like? Software basically designed to protect children on their devices.

Obviously, by definition, it has to be invasive.

There's some interesting questions of privacy versus security and all this.

This is the big thing.

thing when it comes to any kind of net nanny type software i wonder if you could take us back to a little bit of your involvement in some of that and then we can ask a follow-up question

sure uh so net nanny is an historic piece of software um it will date a lot of people it will predate a lot of the listeners of this audience that piece of software was actually created in 1995 and i think is the earliest commercial parental control software on the market And when I became involved with that, the company had been acquired by three dads who were trying to reposition it for a mobile era.

That's what it is.

My friends and, like, my cousins, their parents had things like Net Nanny where it was, like, firewalls and, like...

But the problem is kids know more about technology than you do.

And that's always going to be the case no matter how good you are with computers.