A security outfit has produced a tool which is designed for parents who run their families like police states.

Instead of going to the computer to see if your kid has porn on it, you can stick a USB drive into the machine and it will look for all likely porn pictures on the drive. You may then waterboard the brat, keep him on bread and water, or pack him off for further religious brainwashing.

The Porn Detection Stick is the invention of Paraben Corporation, a digital forensic technology provider. According to the press release the stick is a tool that “empowers parents” with the ability to find risks to their children. We would have thought that the sort of parents who would want this sort of thing would have no problem finding risks to their precious snowflakes. They see risks every time he or she moves or breathes.

Amber Schroader, CEO of Paraben said that monitoring software and filters can't stop everything which is why the Porn Detection stick is the perfect tool for safeguarding the content on your family or business computer. Lets be clear here it does not safeguard it sniffs. So the pictures have had to be downloaded already.

It is not protection it is a police action. The Porn Detection Stick is 99 per cent accurate in the detection of pornographic or illicit content. A computer with a 500 GB hard drive was searched using the Porn Detection Stick and within an hour and a half, the entire computer was searched and over 72,000 images were analysed. She claimed that kids as young as 11 were exposed to porn online.