Teen Online Safety

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Teen Online Safety

• Facebook and Social Networking Safeguards
• Nan Poulios
• Director IAC Walsh College
• npoulios_at_walshcollege.edu
• 248-823-1369

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Agenda

• F.U.D statistics
• Scope of the challenge
• What is a parent to do?

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F.U.D. (Statistics)

• 77 Million Children online (estimated)
• 1 in 5 have been solicited for sex on Internet
• 1 Million pedophiles online
• 1 in 33 aggressively pursued other than Internet
• 1 in 4 shown explicit photographs
• 1 in 17 threatened or harassed
• http//www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST05-002.html
• http//www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletin
  s/internet_2_2001/internet_2_01_6.html

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The Other Side of the Coin

• Not just deaths
• Not just pedophiles
• Pictures are used by criminals / miscreants /
  friends
• Journals are used maliciously- sometimes years
  later
• Divorce cases, spying, alibis, etc
• Problems with Corporate spying as well

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Social Networking

• Same social needs
• Technology has opened new world
• Convergence of phone, Internet, texting
• Most teens will use social media
• Facebook could be the 8th largest country in the
  world!
• 200,000,000 subscribers
• 2.6 billion minutes on the Web site every day
  worldwide.

http//www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/01/31/bus
iness/srv0000004504037.txt
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Scope of the Challenge

• Virtual Social networking
• IRC / Chat Rooms
• Blogs
• Online Games
• Text Messaging
• Good ole fashioned Internet
• Cell Phones
• Online Marketing Scams

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Real Problemswith Social Networking

• 1993 New Yorker

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Social Networking- the New Model

• MySpace
• Facebook
• Friendster
• Youtube
• Orkut
• Snapfish
• Craigslist
• IRC

Any sites that allow views, opinions, pictures,
text / Interaction with someone else qualifies
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Blogs

• Myspace, Livejournal, Deadjournal, Xanga, Blurty,
  
• Profiles
• Kids need to understand content is accessible TO
  ANYONE
• Blogs can be used to hack into your PC
• http//www.netfamilynews.org/nl050603.html1

31 Million Bloggers !
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Example of Steganography

• This is a
• picture of
• a colleagues 5 year old.
• This Picture is
• Completely
• unaltered

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Example- Modified text

• The text reads
• This is text to show what Steganogrphy can do-
  and how it works for my Walsh BIT 546 class.

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Which Picture was Modified?
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Facebook Harvard 2004

• Facebook has replaced My Space
• Mark Zuckerberg 2004
• In 30 days half of Harvard students subscribed
• Now open to anyone with an e-mail address

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Not Really a Mystery

• Easy to use
• Create a profile
• Add pictures
• Join groups
• Share notes with friends
• Search for friends
• Get news
• Interoperate with other applications/mobile
• International in scope

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Risks

• College admissions check for inappropriate
  postings
• Employers also check
• Legal actions
• Pornography charges against teens posting
  pictures
• 15 year old Ohio girl charged with pornorgraphy

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Dangers

• Cyber bullying
• Blackmail
• Sexual predators
• Scams

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Real Life Examples

• Megan Meiers suicide
• 13 year old hanged herself
• History of depression
• Harassed by Loir Drew, classmates mother
• Drew sentenced to 3 misdemeanors, fined 100,000
  for each and up to 1 year in prison
• Wisconsin teen blackmailed classmates
• Posed as someone else and tricked 30 classmates
  to send nude photos
• Then blackmailed them into giving his sexual
  favors

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Local Case

• Girl blackmailed into believing her computer was
  hacked
• Received instant message
• Thought her parents would be financially ruined
• Finally reported this to her parents
• 33 year old man caught in IN
• Sheriff Bouchard caught the man
• http//lists.jammed.com/ISN/2006/08/0116.html

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Scams

• Phishing
• Masquerading as a trusted family member of friend
• Friend in distress
• Worms, virus malware
• Viral Wall post

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So What can Parents do?
TALK TO KIDS with Context

• Public Enemy Number 1 is complacency!
• Use Technology to combat Technology
• Increase awareness (kids and parents)
• Locate good sources of information
• Educate Children on Safe behavior and ethics
• http//www.nsteens.org/videos/offline-consequences
  /
• http//www.nsteens.org/videos/social-networking/

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Common Sense Safety

• Talk to your teens
• Set rules and time limits
• Be open and encourage them to come to you with
  suspicious behaviors
• Remind them often of the rules, dangers, and
  safeguards
• Educate yourself on the technology, dangers, and
  safeguards
• Dont forbid them, they will just access this
  from a friends house

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Start with Privacy!

• Facebook can only share what you allow!
• Privacy settings
• Learn how to use these
• Explain these to your teens
• Be careful what you share as others may not have
  the same privacy settings

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Lets Start
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E-mail Confirmation
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Access Settings
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Limit Information

• Limit the amount of personal information you post
  
• No address
• No phone number
• No picture
• No routine schedules
• Careful consideration of your friends
• Check what friends post about you
• Check for aggregate information

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Internet is a Public Place

• Consider what you want published about you
  publically!
• Remember that the information never dies!

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Beware of Strangers

• Often are not who they claim to be
• Limit who can talk to you
• Never agree to meet a stranger or give out
  personal information such as address to a stranger

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Be Skeptical

• Dont believe everything you read
• Dont rely on stated identities
• Verify all information

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Evaluate Privacy and Security Setting

• Check your profile privacy settings on all sites
• Dont give personal information freely on the web
• Check what your friends display about you
• Dont post anything you wouldnt want to be
  PUBLIC!

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Use Strong Passwords

• No dictionary words, names, pets, birthdates etc.
• Use acronyms
• Change passwords often
• Include upper and lower case letters, numbers,
  and special characters
• At least 8 characters
• 1cmPW2d!

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Maintain Anti-virus software

• Renew every year
• Update daily
• Scan weekly
• Make sure to include internet content and e-mail
• May also be bundled with content filter, spyware
  detection etc.

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Practice Safe Surfing

• Dont open unknown e-mail
• Keep your patches up to date
• Dont install rogue software
• Never click on links in e-mail
• Dont download unsolicited applications
• Use Windows firewall and security settings
• Never run as administrator

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Resources

• http//www.safeteens.com/
• http//www.pamf.org/teen/life/risktaking/internet.
  html
• www.facebook.com
• http//personalweb.about.com/od/makefriendsonfaceb
  ook/a/faceprivsetting.htm
• http//www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340357,00.as
  p
• http//www.surfnetkids.com/safety/facebook/
• http//besafe.more.net/
• http//www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST06-003.html

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• http//www.nsteens.org/videos/offline-consequences
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