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Safety Issues for Online Kids (and the rest of the family)
Rev. 09/2006
Russ Haynal Internet
Instructor, Speaker, and Paradigm Shaker
21015 Forest Highlands CtAshburn, VA 20147
http://navigators.com
Phone : [email protected](put “training” in email subject)
navigators.com/parentguide.html
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http:/Online resources
• There are many websites ready to assist you
• Some sites are for adults while other sites are geared towards the kids.
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http:/Some Statistics…
• 87% of teenagers (12-17) use the internet
• 54% of internet-connected families with teens use filters
• 73% of online teens say their household computer is located in a public place inside the house.
• 62% of parents report checking up on their child’s surfing habits after he or she has gone online…
• …but only 33% of teens who use the internet from home say they believe their parents monitor their online activity.
• 65% of all parents and 64% of all teens say that teens do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about.
• Myspace.com is ranked #6 in traffic
• There are 95 registered sex offenders in Loudoun County
1 in 5 kids online is sexually solicited.
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MySpace.com traffic
= Registered Sex Offender’s Address
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http:/Common Home Set-ups
Phone Modem
Broadband Modem
Internet Gateway
Router
ISP / Internet
Dial-up Modem With a single PC- Temporary Connection
Broadband Modem With a single PC- Persistent Connection
Broadband Modem With multiple PCs- “Internet gateway router” may include extra features: Firewall, Wireless
getting_connected.html
Broadband Modem
Do you control when the Internet is connected?
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Explore Your Router’s Features…
• Schedule the Internet to “turn off” automatically for whole house or specific computers
• Block specific “problem” websites. (not a good solution for everything)
• Add a password to your router to protect these settings
• Make notes, so you know how to change settings
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http:/Personal Firewalls
• A firewall should monitor incoming and outgoing traffic (windows XP firewall is incoming only)
• All firewalls require administration (set-up configuration, updates, making holes for applications)
• Change the default administrative password included in the firewall
• Firewall can block chat programs, and catch any new programs your kids might download
firewall.html
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Software: Enforcing Time Limits
• A time-limit program can control when, and for how long, each application can be used. (i.e. AOL Chat = 30 minutes /day from 6pm-8pm) (source:www.pcmonitor.com)
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http:/Explore Your Web Browser Settings
• Internet Explorer = Tools Internet Options
• Netscape = Edit Preferences
Settings for Active X, scripts, etc
Cookies Settings
privacy.html
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http:/Sneaking around your filters…
• Kids may use anonymizers to get around your filters.
• Now your filter must also include the anonymizer’s address
• The “kids” are sharing these techniques with each other.
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http:/Eliminate search result “accidents”
• Search results may contain offensive sites
• Most search engines have a preference you can set to eliminate such accidents
• Use specialty search tools (i.e. library)
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http:/Web Browser History
• Hit “ctrl-h” to display your web browser’s History
• Clicking on a “folder” will show a list of web pages visited from that Website
• For a search engine, the search terms will also be displayed
• Clicking on an individual page icon will load that page now.
• “smart kids” can clear entire history, or delete specific entries in the history.
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http:/Kid’s E-mail and SPAM
• Kids will receive the same kind of spam you receive
• Teach kids to avoid posting their email on public webpages where a spammer’s robot will harvest it
• Most webmail offers user-selected levels of spam filtering
• Younger kids may be best served by “exclusive” option
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http:/Your ISP labels your connection
Most Internet connections label you based on geography. A stranger emailing with your child can probably determine that you are in Northern Virginia
persona.html
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http:/What about the other applications?
• Many applications you use are “internet enabled”
• These applications carry your connection persona, and may have their own set of privacy and security settings
Internet Access Internet
privacy_other_apps.html
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http:/AOL Instant Messenger
• Chat Programs offer lots of options
• Decide what settings are “best” for your child, and then verify these settings occasionally
Who is on your child’s buddy list?
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http:/Look for the options / settings
• Homework: Examine every application on your PC which is “internet aware”, you need to explore through every preference / option menu
• Your firewall settings are WORTHLESS, if your 12-year old enables your entire Hard disk to be shared with everyone who also uses that chat program, music swapper, etc.
privacy_other_apps.html
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http:/Blog = online diary / guestbook
• Millions of kids now have their own blog
• A blog may include all of the following
– Journal entries from your child
– Postings from friends
– Links to friend’s blogs
– Photographs (especially cool or outrageous ones)
– Personality tests – can be quite detailed
• Whatever gets posted, may be read by parent, teacher, coach, college admissions officer, sexual predator, etc.
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http:/Can you see the computer screen?
• Move the entire computer into family room / kitchen desk (if space allows)
• Leave Computer in den, but add a second Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM), connected via long cables
Family Room Den
Network cable
• KVM Extender can transmit KVM signals via a single thin network cable
VGA Extension Cable
PS2 Extension Cables (2)
VGA Cable
USB MouseUSB Keyboard
(VGA Splitter)
DenFamily Room
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http:/Summary
• Do nothing…
• Require password for internet access
• Time constraints on when access is available
• Move computer screen to a visible location
• Know what applications are being installed and how they are configured (AOL IM, Kazaa, hotmail – email filter options, etc, etc)
• Install parent control software
– Blacklists, vs. logs
– Monitoring web vs monitoring everything (key logger)
– Time limit specific applications such as chat
• Talk/listen to child – let them understand how they can be tracked – email articles to them about online predator cases.
• Yes this takes time and effort (welcome to parenting)
• Next, What about the neighbor’s computer, where your child goes instead?
• What happens when the child moves out?
navigators.com/parentguide.html
Your Options:
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• Extra topics that anyone who owns a computer needs to
know….
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http:/Identity theft
• Identity theft occurs when someone has collected enough personal information about you, that they can “impersonate” you.
• They can use your identification information to access your existing financial accounts, investment accounts, etc.
• They can use your identification information to establish new accounts (checking, credit card, loans) based on your name/credit history.
• They run up debt, write bad checks, and then move on. All debt incurred is now yours.
• They can collect your personal Information through traditional means – dumpster diving, scam solicitations, corrupt employee.
• Now add the risk from Internet/PC usage:
• Hacker gains access to your PC: bank account information, investment software, cookies, auto-complete password, auto web form fill-ins’ and family genealogy (birth date, mother’s maiden name)
• Hacker gains access to your relative’s PC which has a genealogy program.
Identity Theft is the fastest growing crime in America9.900,000 victims during 2003
privacy.html
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http:/Spyware Statistics
Total number of PC scans: 1,483,517 Total instances of spyware found: 40,846,089 Instances of spyware per PC: 27.5
System Monitors
To date: 245,432
April: 60,873
March: 35,915
Trojans
To date: 257,761
April: 72,842
March: 38,385
Adware
To date: 7,642,556
April: 2,298,201
March: 1,262,078
Adware Cookies
To date 32,700,340
April 8,873,555
March 5,750,392
Results from EarthLink’s Spy Audit programs (1/1/04-4/30/04)
Source: www.earthlink.net/spyaudit/press/
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Piggy Back Applications(Spyware, Adware)
• Some Free program include piggy-back programs (they provide revenue to the free program)
• For example: a stealth p2p network application is bundled with Kazaa
– Buried in the user agreement:
– "You hereby grant “Brilliant” the right to access and use the unused computing power and storage space on your computer/s and/or Internet access or bandwidth for the aggregation of content and use in distributed computing,"
• “Brilliant” now has the keys to your computer.
• 150 million copies of Kazaa have been downloaded.
• How hard would it be for a hacker to also access these capabilities?
privacy_other_apps.html
• Programs such as ad-aware (by lavasoft) and “Spybot Search and destroy”, can be used to identify /remove such programs.
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http:/Anti-Virus Software
• Every machine should have updated anti-virus software installed, and running
• AV software will occasionally scan every file on your machine for viruses
• AV software should automatically examine every incoming file (via, floppy disk, email attachment, web download, peer-to peer download)
• The heart of most AV programs is a “dictionary” of pre-defined viruses which is compared to your files. The dictionary may have over 60,000 definitions.
• AV programs will also monitor certain sensitive system resources for any changes – You may need to disable AV software when installing certain kinds of programs.
Important: the virus definition dictionary must to be updated frequently (Over 3,000 new viruses were discovered during the first half of 2002)
virus.html
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http:/Keep your system up to date
• My New Laptop, pre-loaded with Windows XP Professional, required 8.2 MB of Critical Updates the very first time I launched Windows Update.
• “windows update” requires Internet Explorer Version 5.01 or higher
privacy.html
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http:/Third Party cookies
Web pages can include graphics (and therefore cookies) from “third parties”
[email protected] history
[email protected]_phoneViewing history
badplace.comFake [email protected] history
Jokes.com ID#_201loan.com ID#_4873
badplace.com ID#_539
3p.com
3p.com ID#_435349
Your Cookies
[email protected] viewing [email protected]_phoneYour viewing historybadplace.comFake [email protected] viewing history
Buys/sells your data with its “partners”
Copyright navigators.com
The “third party site” can compile an extensive profile on you, and sell this information to companies that are online and offline.
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http:/Managing Cookies
• Older Browsers offered limited tools for managing cookies
• Third-party Software tools were developed to meet user’s needs
• Newest Browsers contain many more cookie management tools
Netscape 4.79 – edit -> preferences ->advanced Explorer 6.0 – Tools -> Internet Options
Nice Feature: You can explicitly allow cookies from specific web sites (i.e. amazon.com ) while blocking all other sites.
cookies.html
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http:/Public Terminals
• Public terminals = Library, Kinkos, Hotel Lobby, Cyber Café, etc
• Is there any kind of consistent “administration” to guarantee the integrity of these computers?
For a public terminal, you should always assume that the machine has been compromised, and that a “keystroke logger” is quietly capturing all keystrokes. ( usernames, passwords, credit cards, etc)