Internet Safety

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Internet Safety

• Agenda
• Who are we up against
• What we can physically do
• Where are your defenses
• How do you protect your family

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Who Needs Protection

• I DO !!!
• My Children
• My family
• Their Friends

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What Is the Internet?

• A large computer network linking together
  millions of small computer networks all over the
  world.
• It is open to the public.
• It has loose government regulations.
• Think of it as inviting anyone in the world into
  your home.

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What Makes the Internet Unique?

• It's interactive, meaning that unlike TV, the
  broadcast is two-way
• Anyone can 'publish' on the Internet
• For the first time, the vast majority of the
  world's knowledge is accessible to anyone
• Millions of people can share and take part in
  online communities

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What Can You Do on the Internet?

• Find information by using search engines
• Publish information on your own web site
• Send messages by e-mail or instant message
• Join a club through a newsgroup
• Find someone in an online phone book

• Have a conversation in a 'chat' room
• Make airline reservations, invest in the stock
  market
• Get directions and draw maps
• Go shopping
• And more!

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What Else Can You Do

• Chat with known felons
• Talk to anyone who is disguised
• Innocently find out that difference an extension
  makes .Gov vs .Com
• Learn to make pipe bombs

• Learn to hack into someones computer
• Hand in reports without typing a word
• Rate a friend
• Sexual topics galore

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Parents need to be involved

• 89 of parents believe computer skills are
  important to future success
• The Internet presents parenting challenges
• Parental involvement is essential to ensure kids
  have a safe, rewarding and educational online
  experience
• Parents help children assess the value and
  importance of information they find

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A Shared Responsibility

• Ensuring a positive and safe online experience is
  a shared responsibility
• Parents, teachers, librarians and others need to
  make sure kids have access to and are guided
  safely through the Internet
• Companies in the online industry need to do
  their fair share.

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Risks on the Internet

• Two basic forms
• Content children may see material that is
  inappropriate or even illegal
• Contact people on the Internet may not be who
  they say they are and predators use the Internet
  to find victims

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Chat Rooms

• Chat rooms are 'live' conversations online
• Conversation usually centers around a
• common interest or rooms
• There is no way to know who you are chatting
  with
• Two types
• Moderated
• Un-moderated

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Newsgroups / Bulletin Boards

• Usually organized or grouped by a common topic
• You can post messages seeking advice, comments or
  information
• Someone will reply to your message later in a
  public form
• You can 'talk' with others about a specific topic
  like health, education or recreation
• Some have explicit material not suitable for
  children

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Internet Dangers

• Finding bondage material when searching for James
  Bond
• Getting e-mail advertising adult sites
• Making inappropriate friendships and sometimes
  dangerous contact with strangers in chat rooms
• Downloading viruses, giving out personal
  information

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The Internet Is a Public Place

• Apply the same common sense as you would if your
  children are headed outside without you
• It allows kids to communicate with friends they
  know and people they don't
• Parents need to make sure their children's
  privacy is protected and teach kids why privacy
  is important
• Do Not give out personal information like phone
  numbers, addresses or credit card numbers,
  especially in chat rooms and newsgroups
• Parents should check websites their children
  visit for privacy policies

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Safer Surfing Kids Online Tips for Parents

• Take the trip together. Take the time to see what
  your kids are doing online and what their
  interests are
• Teach kids to never give out their personal
  Information
• Instruct your child to never plan face-to-face
  meetings alone with anyone they met online
• Do not let them respond to offensive email

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Kids Online Tips for Parents Cont'd

• Establish clear ground rules for Internet use
  with your kids
• Use parental control tools and protective
  software
• Put the computer in the family room or other open
  area of the home
• Dont open or accept e-mails, files, links, URLs
  you dont really know or trust

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Tips for Kids Online Cont'd

• Do not give out passwords to anyone but my
  parents, and parents should check
• Keep an eye on history file during sessions
• Find ways to protect your children even if it is
  inconvenient for you

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Ways to Protect

• Sever-side protection comes from the ISP
• You can personalize search engines
• Each browser can configure to control
• Look for free ways of control first
• You can purchase add-on software

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Kid Safe Search Engines

• Ask Jeeves for Kids http//www.ajkids.com/
• Yahooligans http//www.yahooligans.com/
• Lycos SafetyNet http//personal.lycos.com/safetyne
  t/safetynet.asp
• OneKey http//www.onekey.com/live/index.htm
• Education World http//www.education-world.com/
• Classroom Connect http//www2.classroom.net/search
  us/
• Study Web http//www.studyweb.com/
• Kids Click http//sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

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Other Search Engines

• Use settings on web site to restrict return
  results
• Some have personalization, some dont
• Alta vista does allow
• AOL NetFind does not
• If the search engine does not have setting option
  then block it !

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Browser Controls Internet Explore

• What is Content Advisor?Internet Explorer
  provides a way to help you control the types of
  content that your computer can access on the
  Internet. After you turn on Content Advisor, only
  rated content that meets or exceeds your criteria
  can be displayed. You can adjust the settings.

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Content Advisor Settings

• You turn Content Advisor on, and view the
  settings, by setting up a password..
• View and adjust the ratings settings in four
  areas language, nudity, sex, and violence.
• Adjust what types of content other people can
  view with or without your permission.
• You can override content settings on a
  case-by-case basis.
• View and change the ratings systems and bureaus
  you use.

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Content Advisor Contd

• Content Advisor is set to the most conservative
  (least likely to offend) settings when you first
  enable it. You can adjust these settings to match
  your own preferences.
• Not all Internet content is rated. If you choose
  to allow other people to view un-rated sites on
  your computer, some of those sites could contain
  inappropriate material.

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Adjust Content Settings

• On the View menu, click Internet Options.
• Click the Content tab.
• In the Content Advisor area, click Settings.
• Type the supervisor password for your computer.
• Click the Ratings tab, click a category in the
  list, and then adjust the slider to set the
  limits you want to use.
• Repeat this process for each category you want to
  adjust.

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Restricted Content

• On the View menu, click Internet Options.
• Click the Content tab.
• In the Content Advisor area, click Settings.
• Type the supervisor password for your computer.
• Click the General tab, and then select the
  following check box Supervisor can type a
  password to allow users to view restricted
  content.

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View Un-rated Content

• On the View menu, click Internet Options
• Click the Content tab
• In the Content Advisor area, click Settings
• Type the supervisor password for your computer
• Click the General tab, and then select the
  following check box Users can see sites that
  have no rating. 

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Netscape

• NetWatch allows you to select the types of sites
  that can be viewed on your computer and filters
  out those that you do not want. The settings that
  control this are protected by a password chosen
  by you so that nobody else can change them. These
  settings can not be seen by any web site that you
  visit.

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Netwatch

• Netwatch uses two independent PICS (Platform for
  Internet Content Selection)-compliant ratings
  systems called RSACi and SafeSurf. Each of these
  uses a different method to describe the levels of
  potentially offensive content, and you can choose
  to use one or both of these ratings systems in
  Netwatch. Web publishers voluntarily rate their
  pages for these systems.

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ICRA Rating System

• This filter has been developed to demonstrate a
  transparent, freely available tool to enable
  parents to control access to material they deem
  inappropriate or potentially harmful to their
  children and at the same time protect freedom of
  expression.

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ICRA Key Features

• Reading of ICRA labels
• User's can block and allow lists (you can enter
  sites or groups of sites you always want to block
  and those you always want to allow)
• Templates - sets of rules for what to block or
  allow based on ICRA labels (or their absence),
  block lists and allow lists.
• Blocking of various online services including
  chat rooms and e-mail
• Multiple profiles - you can set different rules
  for different members of your family.

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SafeSurf Internet Rating Standard

• The SafeSurf Rating Standard is a voluntary
  rating system designed to protect children, as
  well as the first amendment rights of their
  parents.  It was developed with input from
  thousands of parents and Net citizens,
  worldwide.It's structure is different from
  other rating systems in several ways.  First, it
  is more detailed.  Second, its goal is to
  objectively describe both content and how that
  content is presented.  Third, it is the first
  system designed to allow those who self-rate and
  those who evaluate to have enough flexibility to
  reach an accord on a rating without compromising
  SafeSurf's purpose of protecting the innocence of
  children.

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ESRBi Overview

• Apart from Software Products the Entertainment
  Software Rating Board ("ESRB") now rates online
  games and websites.What is ESRBi?The ESRBi is
  an arm of the Entertainment Software Rating Board
  ("ESRB"). The ESRB is an independent board that
  has, with the support of the interactive software
  industry, developed a standardized rating system
  for all entertainment software. The ESRB is the
  foremost rating board for all interactive
  entertainment in the U.S. ESRB ratings appear on
  the packages of more than 7,000 products sold in
  the United States and Canada.(I did not use it,
  lockedup my browser)

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Manuel Controls

• You can override these controls
• Allow no un-rated site to be visited
• Allow certain sites to be visited
• Not allow certain sites to be visited

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Tools Software outside browser

• Tools filtering out sexually explicit content
• Tools blocking hateful or intolerant content
• Tools filtering violent content
• Tools filtering crime
• Tools that filter other categories of material
• Tools that block outgoing content
• Tools that monitor computer activity
• Also remember No filtering or blocking system is
  fool-proof. Parents will always need to remain
  involved in their child's online life. Kids will
  always need to know what their families' rules
  are and how to stay safe.

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Filtering Software

• Enhances blocking capabilities
• Use in addition to the rating service
• Block sites that contain certain words
• Get updates list like virus software
• Allow only specific sites

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We-Blocker

• We-Blocker gives parents the opportunity to
  monitor their children's Internet access and
  provide them with age-appropriate content, while
  filtering out sites that contain adult material.
  In addition, We-Blocker lets parents help other
  parents by sharing their requests for websites
  that they want to see filtered. The "We" in
  We-Blocker stands for our collective community,
  made up of all We-Blocker users. Working
  together, "We" CAN make the Internet safe for
  everyone!

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How to Use We-Blocker

• Click on Download now
• Following instructions on website for detail
  instructions
• You will need to register with them
• Their master list of block sites include 35,000
  sites that are blocked
• When you stumble onto 35001 site you can add it
  and it is shared with members

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All Done !!!

• Not at all
• Spy software can be purchased and installed
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