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My talk on "Cyber Safe Parenting" delivered at an awareness event by Computer Society of India.
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Technical
Roadmap for next 3 hours
Online Risks that Children & Parents Face
Symptoms & reason for concern
Non-technical Solution
Q &A
Part 1
Part 2
Part 5
Part 3
Part 4
SexualHatefulViolent in natureDangerous illegal.
Exposure to Inappropriate Material
When a child is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones.
Cyber Bully
Cyber StalkingMatter of concern for every parent specially for girl child.
Morphed nude photos of an airhostess in Delhi, school girls in Mumbai on Orkut/Facebook
Drugs Alcohol
Tobacco
Avoidable friendship
Pedophiles • Gain a child’s confidence online and then arrange a face-to-face meeting. • On meeting child is in great danger of physical harm and permanent psychological scarring.
Bullies can give away contact info to provoke offline attack
Physical Harm
A ‘15 year old girl’ courts a 16 year old boy through a popular Internet chat website. The boy runs away from home to Mumbai only to find out that the ‘girl’ was in fact a 30 year old man. The man sexually abuses the boy, steals his money and severely beats him up.
• Hacking• Hate group• Defamatory activity• Do cyber bully• Do Stalking
Illegal Activity
A class 10 student, who was taunted by his classmates puts up a pornographic website and displays nude "morphed" images of his classmates and teachers.
Steal Credit Card to• Buy Farmville cash• Buy expensive gift for online bully
Possibilities are endless
Financial Crime
A 14-year-old boy used his father’s credit card on viewing pornographic websites costing in 1000s.
Un-family relationship
Kids are now too busy with computers that they don’t have for family, siblings etc.
“I believe in my child
he or she will do no wrong!”
McAfee report(Dated June 22, 2010)
28% of teens chat with people they don’t know in the offline world– 24% shared their email address– 18% shared a personal photo of themselves– 12% shared their cell phone number
Girls are more likely than boys to chat with people online that they don’t know in the offline world, (32% vs. 24%)
16 % of Girls are more likely to have given a description of what they look like, than boys the same age (7%)
55% of teens hide what they do online from parents
14 % of 13-17 year olds admit to having engaged in some form of cyberbullying behavior in 2010
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38% of teens close or minimize the browser when their parents enter the room
46% of teens admit to downloading pirated music or videos
16% of 16-17 year old boys have downloaded x-rated content
24 % of parents thought someone anonymous had tried to add their child as a friend on social networking sites
Norton Online Family Report (June 2010)In Indian Context
77% of teens have suffered negative online experiences
only 50% of Indian parents are actually aware of this
55% of the children said this had actually happened
29% of parents thought their child had downloaded a virus
40% children reported this.
Symptoms & reason for concern
Screen switching
Odd Hours of the Night
Sudden Prosperity
Withdrawal Symptoms
Unhappy phone calls
Strange friends
Strange Online Activities
Unwanted apps Installed on PC (warez, dialer, keygen, crack)
How to keep an eye•Be a friend on social networking site
•Check browser history regularly
•Check installed software regularly
•Check logs regularly
• Create a low privilege user account
• Install good antivirus antispyware firewall
• Install parental control software
The Technical Answer
Low Privilege User
Smart AntivirusNothing wrong with free, even
Microsoft Security Essentials is also
good enough
Smart Anti-
spywareNot all antivirus
fight against spyware/adware/
ransomware
Smart FirewallSomeone who
can protect you from unwanted incoming and
outgoing connections
U p d a t e t h e m R e g u l a r l y
"I don't think MY machine will be attacked, when there are so
many others to attack!"
You’re the next
BUT be aware of fake antivirus
They are cheap and widely available online to download
Free
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Even you know its not going to work
"Don't you trust me Dad?"
The Easy Solution
• Be involved in your child’s life!
Create an atmosphere where your child can come to you and talk to you.
Ask them what they learn.
Accompany them. Share with them.Be a friend in offline
world too
• Learn All You Can
You need to know what your kids do
Do the same stuffWhile you are teaching
them something, learn from them too
Else very soon they’ll outsmart you
Spend some time listening to and speaking with other concerned parents.
• Limit the computer usage time
Don’t allow late nights
Don’t allow over usage
Create a time table
Force with parental software if needed
• Teach Your Children Good Internet Practices
Teach them how much and what type of information is appropriate to share
Talk about social networking standards
Teach them about safe software
Rules about strangers in the real world apply on the internet also
Shift computer into a public place in the home, immediately!!
A big NO for computer in bedroom
Keep it in a place which is visible in normal circumstances
Instill a Healthy FearFear and respect for the dangers on the internet is
healthy!
Put themselves in your shoes as their parent so they can see how you’d feel if anything ever happened to them!
Encourage Other Interests
Free your childGive proper guidance
Monitor illegal activities
& then give them full freedom to explore
Rohit SrivastwaFounder, [email protected]
Image Credits
All images are taken from different sources online.Most of them are marked as free for reuseSome which were not marked are already used 10s of time online
Pardon under fair usage if any image is used without acknowledgement, this presentation is non-commercial for parental guidance.
Content Credits
McAfee, Symantec, http://timmyjohnboy.com/, http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/, http://asianlaws.org/fact/guidelines.htmhttp://www.indianchild.com/
