Covenant Eyes
I was talking to my pastor the other day about Internet Accountability and how internet pornography is one of the fastest thriving businesses on the web. We have been going through a purification process at our church for the first 40 days of this year so we thought that making available a software solution for members to signup for would be a good idea. After checking out a couple of different software applications I ran across Covenant Eyes, which seem to have one of the best all around service offerings out there. They provide both accountability software with reports as well as internet filtering. I will be adding this to our church website this week for anyone that is interested in downloading it and giving it a try.
The way it operates is that you download it onto your PC and then setup an account with Covenant Eyes for around $10 a month. Then once you have the software setup you setup your accountability partners. These partners will have reports emailed to them of the websites that you visit. The software also has a filter that is installed on your computer that blocks pornographic or inappropriate websites from your computer. I noticed shortly after I installed it that I had to issue an override to get into Facebook and also Break.com.
I am going to continue playing with this software to learn more about it, I setup my pastor as my accountability partner so we could test it out. I will post more about my findings to this blog as I run across them.
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