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The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

Version 2.3 Published January 2006 IMPORTANT: Please note, this document was written to support the v02 version of the ICRA vocabulary. The current vocabulary is v03. While the basic instructions have not changed, the document does not reflect the changes to the legacy PICS vocabulary in the examples it gives. Contents The key concept behind […]

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The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

The ICRA system encourages content providers (webmasters) to self-label. That is, it is the content providers themselves that add their own ICRA label to their sites declaring what types of content are present or absent. What is to prevent a content provider mislabelling? Can you trust an ICRA label? Yes. Mislabelled site procedure In ICRA’s […]

Advanced configuration

Print this page This option is designed for advanced users only and allows a degree of flexibility well beyond what most people will require. The majority of users can safely leave it well alone! When you visit a web page, the various filters each make an independent decision whether it should be blocked or allowed. […]

Forgotten password

Print this page There is no record of your passwords anywhere. Individual user passwords and the override password can be changed without knowing the existing ones; however, if you forget your administrator password, there is no way for ICRA or anyone else to retrieve it. ICRA can, however, prepare a special program for you that […]

Clearing the cache

Print this page What is “Cache?” Cache is the name given to your browser’s short term memory. When you visit a website, the contents of that site are downloaded onto your computer. This helps to load the page more quickly next time you visit and often allows you to see the site offline. Why it’s […]