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The article missed my favorite safeguard: freeze your credit. (Google “security freeze”, and follow the links to the official sites of Experian, Equifax and TransUnion.)

I’ve been a happy user of OpenDNS for years, and recently joined their group of volunteer moderators. In my opinion, they have great approach to keeping up with the ever-changing Internet. Users of OpenDNS are welcome to suggest categories for web sites, then other users vote on whether those tags fit those sites, once enough have done so, one of the moderators will confirm the accuracy of the tag. This both ensures sites that need tagging are, and that sites aren’t given inappropriate tags even if a lot of people conspire to do so.

I agree with the earlier comment about the security value of NoScript – without it, I would not be willing to visit some of the sites whose tags I moderate. But OpenDNS is an important additional protection, keeping me (or anyone else using my network) from accidentally or even purposefully visiting types of sites I’ve selected as inappropriate. I use custom settings for OpenDNS, which allows me to be extremely specific about what I do and don’t want to allow access to on my network. In return, I’m happy to volunteer some of my time in semi-retirement from an IT career to help the system work well for all.

I don’t know this for sure, but suspect OpenDNS would be happy to hear from others interested in volunteering as moderators. (At this moment, it looks like we have 193,196 more web sites to moderate.)