Interesting article for techinically challenged people like me. I had to look terms up on line like IRC…even then I couldnt understand what they really are:smack:
What you don?t know can hurt kids - Security - MSNBC.com
Many safety guides for children using the Net read as if they were written by Robert Fulghum. Everything I ever needed to know to stay safe in the virtual world, I learned in the real world. Don’t go scary places by yourself. If someone is making you uncomfortable, just leave, and tell your parents. Don’t look at pornographic pictures, and you won’t have to worry about them. But most important — don’t talk to strangers, and never give them personal information.
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
If it were simple, you wouldn’t hear repeated stories of FBI raids collaring dozens of pedophiles who swap files — and hunt for children — online. There wouldn’t be thousands of cases of Internet-related child luring tracked by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. And 1 in 5 children wouldn’t be telling the Justice Department that they’d received an unwanted sexual advance in surveys.
Rest read on the website:)