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Kids usually use their real name, school, etc.

Can establish a false identity/fake info

No credit cards

No age verification

2nd most hit site

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PRIVATE

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Private accounts can be broken into

Accounts linked/searches

Social engineering Pages aren’t censored

Adult subjects

Graphics

Anyone can search and find info

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StrangersCelebritiesCyber BulliesGang activityMoviesRestaurantsBusinesses

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Cooperative with law enforcement

Parents and teachers can contact myspace to take down pages

Search for kids info

Now requiring authentic email addresses

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Background checks

Criminal activities

Employers use to weed out applicants

Embarrassed when page is shown even among peers

A LIFE RESUME

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Meeting OnlineWith Goal to Meet In-Person

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Human Element

Face-to-face

Words 7%

Body language 90+%

Tone/pitch 35+%

Pitch-Tone-Amplitude-Syllable Duration all greater during deceptive communication

Online

7% info available

Easier to conceal informative for intuition

Disconnect between virtual and physical

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Human Element

No vision-no intuition

No “creep vibe”

Easier to be sexually explicit

Less shy online (would kids stand in the middle of the mall and say “Who wants to talk?”)

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Predator ID

Generally more intelligent

Drs./Lawyers/College Professors/Engineers, etc.

High degree of unsuccessful knock & talks

Past victimization that perpetuates itself

Need driven behavior (esp. dangerous)

Passive/aggressive personality

Master manipulators (using 7%)

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Predator ID

“Opportunist”

Likely to re-offend (1-10/will say 4-5)

Hanging around kids more than adults

Sex offender databases

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Predator Targets

Latchkey

Lonely

Shy

Depressed

Youth groups

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PredatorsIn Their Own Words

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Higher Risks

Communicating with strangersTo meet friendsSexually explicitSexually curiousSend explicit photosWeb camSpecial needs kids especially vulnerableMost luring occurs between 3-6 pm

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Grooming Process

Shared interests“Fit in” with youth’s lifeSlow methodical process to build trust

Will work to befriend even up to a yearConvince family to trustAlways interested in whatever is saidAlways claiming to understand and agreeBreaks down barriers-new relationship/new barrierExcess attentionGifts

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Grooming Process

Accumulate useful infoSoft info (I like…my favorite…)Achilles heel of victims-emotional info

Desensitizes kids by sending porn cartoon to break down barriers or disgusting/violent images

Leaves weird psychological imprints (even detectives need “critical stress debriefings” w/o realizing it when certain images are stamped into the mind)

Goal is to meet in person

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Other Dangers

What today’s kids are exposed to is vastly different than what we were at their age

P2P

Chat rooms

Thematic, regionalized, no age verification

IMing

Meebo (IM from anywhere across companies-no downloads)

Cell phones

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P2PCan trade movies, pics, music, porn

Share files with everyone

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P2P

No servers

Nodes connected to nodes

Bandwidth a must

No company mandates

Anonymity (Freenet)

Encryption (Impedes law enforcement efforts)

Bestiality

Child porn and other (“will make you cry”)

Defecation

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Music Industry Wins Illegal Downloading CaseAssociated Press Friday, October 5, 2007; Page D02 DULUTH, Minn., Oct. 4 -- The recording industry won a key fight Thursday against illegal music downloading when a federal jury found that a Minnesota woman shared copyrighted music online and levied $222,000 in damages against her. The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 30, to pay the six record companies that sued her $9,250 for each of 24 songs they focused on in the case. They had alleged she shared 1,702 songs. Thomas and her attorney, Brian Toder, declined to comment as they left the courthouse. In the first such lawsuit to go to trial, the record companies accused Thomas of downloading the songs without permission and offering them online through

Kazaa, a file-sharing program. Thomas denied wrongdoing and testified that she didn't have a Kazaa account.

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Cell Phones

Leaves house everyday

Electronic leash/surveillance for kids

Cameras

Videos

Autotexting (sex jokes, dating services, romance tips, etc.)

RAPID and EASY transfers to MASS

Thumb drives

New tech in other countries

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Social Networks

Behaviors are the danger

Anytime pics

Nothing private

Pics and postings = DRAMA between friends

Can’t say “don’t do it”

Focus on kids and reach out when young

Teach safety part of it

No shortage of threats, harassment, bullying-must still be dealt with

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“Think Before You Post”

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Think Before You Post

Always assume

Everyone can read post

All posts out there forever (diary/pics)

People reading posts can cause harm

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What to Do

Educate

Don’t talk to strangers

Don’t give personal info

No pics unless comfortable with all relatives seeing or on front page of paper

No web cam! Ever!

No computer in bedroom

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Connect Virtual to Physical

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ProactiveToo much privacy + too much technology = disasterFocus groups with girlsCan’t get back photos once posted or sent

Photos printed/forwarded all the time“Think Before You Post”-ANYONE can see and PRINT what is posted onlineConnect virtual with physicalSkits as commercials

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www.cybertipline.com

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Stories

Guy gets girl to do things while chatting-Records it and releases on P2P-Child porn within seconds and she thinks she’s chatting with 15 year old boy

Principal has fake page created

Superintendent accidentally forwarded “venting” email to a person she was venting about-then was in the newspapers

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13 year old committed suicide

Bullied at school

Turned to Internet and met other suicidal teens

Parents helped to create new laws on bullying in Vermont

www.ryanpatrickhalligan.com

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Cyber Bullying Examples

Postings

Internet polling (hot or not)

Texting

IMs

Sending/posting pics

Interactive games

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Cyber Bullying Examples

Exclusion

Trickery

Cyber stalking

Cyber threats

Emails

Stealing/using someone else’s passwords for impersonating others

Creating websites

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Cyber Bullying Examples

By proxy

Someone else gets punished for something they didn’t do

Warning or notify wars

Usually reported by a 3rd party

Hacking

Signing people up

Flaming

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Effects

Exponential powers of InternetBystanders get involvedStrangers join in (all with 7%)1 out of 10 get reportedUnaware of power of wordsVictims become cyber bullies

FIGHTS IN SCHOOL

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Cyber Bullying

Videotaped beating on YouTube/Ch. 7

Suicides

Damage is done regardless of punishment

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Kids’ Justifications

Didn’t think would get caughtAngry/revengeTimeTech toysJust kiddingTo get a reactionEveryone does itBy accidentFree speech (to protect/not abuse)

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What to do

Ignore

Don’t reply

Print

Save

Tell adult

Report to ISP/local authorities

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