A Presentation by Moses Howe

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E-Safety from a Youth Point of View

• A Presentation by Moses Howe

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Uses Of Internet

• There are many different sites that I as a young
  person use, most of which are networking/ forum
  based. To help determine where the risks mostly
  lie, I have gathered the approximate user numbers
  of the most popular online sites.
• MSN 21,000 people online in the space of an
  hour
• MYSPACE 62,837  Hits in one day
• FACEBOOK 7,000,000 users since launch in Feb 04
• PHOTOBUCKET 61,000,000 since launch in Feb 03
• HI5 70,000,000 in a year

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Where The Risks Lie
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The Risks

• With every technological advance, another risk is
  made. The two biggest and most difficult to
  control in my eyes are Bullying, and People
  pretending to be someone else.
• For example, I was in a situation were one person
  was pretending to be many different people on
  MSN, and found out the answers to me and my
  friends secret question (First pet, first
  school, ect.) using this information, they reset
  my password, and used the access to my account to
  bully most of my contacts, while pretending to be
  me.
• Such issues are happening constantly, and I have
  found myself frequently Back-hacking to help
  people I know re-obtain their accounts on almost
  all of the previously mentioned sites.

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The Methods

• Breaching public sector firewalls is usually a
  process that takes a matter of minutes. I have
  screenshots of a simple firewall hack at Brent
  councils children and families building here.
• Also, allow me to demonstrate..

Super BlueTooth hack 1.06
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But what can we do?

• Im not sure how possible it is, but Messaging
  and social networking sites should require
  verifiable details, such as address, and a real
  name, as I have been told that if someone is
  using a web messenger on msn, or is using someone
  elses computer, they cannot be traced via the
  report abuse link because the address and name
  info they give is made up. Im not sure if this
  is true, but if it is it is rather worrying
• Other things that might help are dynamic filter
  applications in schools and libraries, as the
  current ones can be breached in a matter of
  seconds, giving young people access to Social
  Hacks where the user can obtain access to other
  peoples social networking pages

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Final Statement

• You need to think outside the box!
• Give us some credit we know who to avoid.
• Locking us out sends us underground.
• Try suggestions rather than rules.