Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control

Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control

Parental software that monitors and controls your child's web activity.

What is Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control?
Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control is a Chrome extension developed by Team Beta. It allows parents to monitor and control their child's web activity by blocking specific websites and setting security levels. The extension connects to a websocket and updates the blacklist, whitelist, and security level every 15 seconds. It also saves the blacklist to enforce it even when not connected to the websocket.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 37 ▼ -6
Version: 1.0.7 (Last updated: 2017-11-28)
Creation date: 2017-11-27
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • history
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 19.44K
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Summary

This extension is part of Team Beta's project for CS 4310, Software Engineering I with professor Hank Stalica.

It connects to a websocket and requests the blacklist, whitelist, and security level every 15 seconds. Websites specified in the blacklist are always blocked. The extension also saves the blacklist after the browser is closed, so if it fails to connect to the websocket the last known blacklist is enforced.

Depending on the security level, websites specified on the whitelist are logged and/or blocked.

Extension Developer: Jeffrey McClain

Team Beta: Raymond Burke Alexis Lara Vincent Mark Mariano Jeffrey McClain Patryk Skowronski-Stec

Safety
Risk impact

Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Beta Watch: Parental Monitoring and Control has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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