1. CRESTED BUTTE COMMUNITY SCHOOL Feb. 16, 2006
INTERNET SAFETY
RULES ‘N TOOLS™ Prepared by Donna Rice Hughes
(Presentation copyrighted)

2. Overview Internet Dangers (vs. Benefits)
Children’s Access to Pornography
Cyber-Sex & Addiction
Pedophiles’ Access to Children
Preventative Solutions & Rules N’ Tools

3. Internet Dangers (A tool used for good or evil)
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Internet Dangers (A tool used for good or evil)
1. Free and easy access to inappropriate and illegal content with unrestricted Net access:
- Pornography (child porn, obscenity, harmful to minors)
- Violence
- Bomb-making
- Hate speech
2. Predators have easy and anonymous access to unsuspecting kids
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4. The “Adult” Internet Industry
$12 billion dollars in annual revenue – larger than the combined annual revenues of ABC, NBC, and CBS (Family Safe Media, Jan. 2006)
By the end of 2004, 420 million pages of pornography owned by less than 50 companies (Summit on Pornography, 5/19/05).

5. Deceptive Tactics
74% of adult commercial sites display free teaser pornography images on homepage, often banner ads
25% prevented users from exiting site (Mousetrapping)
Only 3% required adult verification
(Child-proofing on the World wide Web: A Survey of Adult Webservers,2001, Jurimetrics. NRC Report 2002)

6. Unintentional Access Misspelled Words
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Unintentional Access
Misspelled Words
Innocent Searches (toys, boys, pets, etc.)
Stealth Sites- (whitehouse; watersports)
Brand Name Misuse (Disney, Nintendo, Barbie, Levis, etc.)
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7. Where and How World Wide Web Blogging sites Peer to peer Email - Spam
Instant Messages
Chat Rooms
Internet access via:
Computer
i-Pod
Cell Phone ($1 billion revenue in 2005)

8. Youth and Internet Pornography
Adult industry says traffic is 20-30% children (NRC Report 2002)
Average age of first exposure- 11yrs old! (Family Safe Media, 2006)
More than 11 million teens regularly view porn online ( The Washington Post, July 1, 2004).
87% of college students have virtual sex using IM, webcam, and telephone (Canadian poll, )

9. Easy and Free Access
9 in 10 kids ages 8-16 yrs have viewed pornography online, mostly unintentionally, and when using the Internet to do homework (UK:News Telegraph, NOP Research Group, 1/17/02)
In 26% of cases where youth accidentally stumbled into pornographic websites, the youth stated being exposed to another sex website when they were attempting to exit the initial website ( “The Exposure of Youth to Unwanted Sexual Material on the Internet: A National Survey of Risk, Impact, and Prevention,” 2003).

10. Online Obscenity Girls.com vs. Gurls.com Watersports.com
Pornography depicting bodily functions
Live video

11. www.Boys.com POPULAR CATEGORIES Porn
Teen Porn Asian Porn Blowjobs Fisting Anal Orgy Virgin Porn Butt Sex BBW Lesbian Amateur Black Girls Gay SitesFetish SitesDatingGay Porn Straight Guys Gay Twinks Transsexuals Fetish Porn Peeing FootFetish Cum Adult Dating Singles Webcams Gay Dating

12. CYBER-SEX COMPULSIONS “CRACK COCAINE”
71.9 million people visited adult sites in August 2005, reaching 42.7 % of the Internet audience (Media Metrix).
More than 32 million unique individuals visited a porn site in Sept. of Nearly 22.8 million of them were male (71 %), while 9.4 million adult site visitors were female (29 %) (Nielsen/Net Ratings, Sept 2003).

13. Demographics
41% of women said they had deliberately viewed or downloaded pornographic pictures and movies (Pornified: 2005).
51% of pastors say cyberporn is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001).

14. Harms * Demeans children, women, and men
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Harms
* Affects attitudes, choices and behavior
* Demeans children, women, and men
* Counterfeit for love, intimacy, and commitment
* Drug of choice - anesthetizes pain
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15. Harms to Youth (Kids Online: Protecting Your Children In Cyberspace, Donna Rice Hughes)
Interferes with a child’s development and identity
Shapes attitudes and values
Promotes desensitization
Images never erased
May incite children to act out sexually against other children

16. Harms (cont.)
Incidents of young children displaying sexually aggressive behavior has increased, exposure to online porn is a key factor (Australian study, 11/2003)

17. Stages of Addiction Dr. Victor Cline, University of Utah:
Addiction - The need to keep coming back for more (drug of choice)
Escalation - The need for more explicit, rougher and more deviant images for same effect
Desensitization - Material once shocking or taboo is acceptable
Acting out - Tendency to sexually act-out behaviors depicted in pornography (public safety issue)

18. Child Pornography
More than half of all illegal sites are hosted in the U.S. (National Criminal Intelligence Service, 8/21/03).
Approximately 20% of all Internet pornography involves children (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, 2003).
More than 20,000 images of child porn posted on the Internet every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03)
More babies and toddlers are appearing on the net, the abuse is getting worse (Combating Peadophile Information Networks, 3/03)

19. New Trend – Teens and Child Porn Use
Young people aged 15 to 20 were the single biggest demographic group, accounting for one-quarter of all child porn users tracked and caught by investigators. One-third of the 185 criminals gave their occupations as students, of which 60 percent were studying at tertiary level (New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs. Internet Traders of Child Pornography: Profiling Research, October 2005).
(Based on a report involving 202 sexual offenders)

20. Child Porn and the Predator
40% of arrested child pornography possessors had both sexually victimized children and were in possession of child pornography (NCMEC June 2005).
Of those arrested in the U.S. for the possession of child pornography between 2000 and 2001, 83% had images involving children between ages 6 and 12; 39% had images involving children between ages 3 and 5; and 19% had images of infants and toddlers under age 3 (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children., 2005).

21. Yahoo!
Yahoo’s Clubs,
Members Directories and Geocities sites host obscenity & child pornography
Yahoo! Child Pornography Crimes Directory

22. Predators Online Pedophiles’ & Predators’ Anonymous Access to Youth
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Predators Online
Pedophiles’ & Predators’ Anonymous Access to Youth
Easy Access to Child Pornography
Virtual Validation
Trade Secrets & Teaching Tools
Avoidance of Law Enforcement Detection
Prepared by Donna Rice Hughes

23. Online Victimization: A Report on the Nation’s Youth
1 in 5 received sexual solicitation or approach in last year (Sample of 1,501 youth ages who use Internet regularly)
50,000 predators online at any given time. (Dateline, NBC, 2005)

24. Juvenile Perpetrators
Juveniles
48% of overall solicitations
48% of aggressive solicitations

25. TOOL OF TODAY’S PEDOPHILE (Chat, IM, Blogs)
89% of sexual solicitations were made in either Chat rooms or Instant Messages (Pew Study reported in JAMA, 2001)
“30% of teenage girls polled by the Girl Scout Research Institute said they had been sexually harassed in a chatroom. Only 7%, however, told their mothers or fathers about the harassment because they were worried that their parents would ban them from going online” (Girl Scout Research Institute, 2002).

26. Youth Ignorance Factor
Children ages 7-17 who surf the net, if asked online:
- 29% would freely give out home address
- 14% would freely give address (Telegraph.co.uk. 1/02).
65% of all parents and 64% of all teens say that teens do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 12/12/05).

27. Parent’s Ignorance Factor
“86% of the girls polled said they could chat online without their parents’ knowledge, 57% could read their parents’ , and 54% could conduct a cyber relationship” (Girl Scout Research Institute, 2002).
Teenagers use chat lingo to communicate when Instant Messaging and parents don’t know the meanings of some of the most commonly used phrases. 57% don’t know LOL (laughing out loud), 68% don’t know BRB (be right back), and 92% don’t know A/S/L (age/sex/location) (NCMEC, 12/14/05).

28. Using Internet Technology…..
How hard is it for a predator to target a child?

29. I am intrigued by Amanda...
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Luring starts with target identification and selection
I am intrigued by Amanda...
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30. Most online or Internet service providers provide user directories to assist their members identify others with similar interests. In our nefarious but capable hands...

31. we continue the search for Amanda by checking her Member Profile.

32. We type in her chatroom name...

33. Using the locate command, I can follow Amanda wherever she goes in Cyberspace.

34. I can also email or instant message her by using the email command.

35. After 2 minutes we have determined that Amanda is:
most likely a female child
likes seashells, rollerblading and English class
has a little brother that most likely answers to Billy, Junior or J.R. and
her valid address

36. Using Deja News or AltaVista we can check for more information by searching newsgroup postings
Using the Power Search option we continue the inquiry

37. Using Amanda’s email address, I search for any of her newsgroup postings.

38. I now know how many messages Amanda has posted; when and where the messages were posted, and the text of each message.

40. Newsgroups are electronic bulletin boards

41. Within 12 minutes I know: Amanda is her first name
She is a young girl who likes beanie babies, rollerblading, and English class
Has a baby brother named Billy Jr.
Has a Mom or sister named Sue
A good idea when she’s at home
She lives on the East Coast
Her home telephone number

42. What can I find out about her from the telephone number?
There are many online services that allow for searches using as little as one variable.
What can I find out about her from the telephone number?

43. I bet this Amanda’s last name...
Good news. Most of these services will allow you to change or eliminate your personal data from the directories.

44. What can I find out using Amanda’s last name?

45. using her last name.
I bet I can find out where she lives...
With each additional piece of information, I can perform additional searches.

46. I found her.

47. I’m not familiar with Laurel
I’m not familiar with Laurel. Let’s see if I get some better location information.

48. One click, I’m there.

49. Voila. I can even get closer.
But how do I get there from Chicago?

52. I wonder where she goes to school?

53. If the school posts student pictures on its web page, I could even get Amanda’s picture.

54. Within 45 minutes I learned:
target is a female child
whose full name is Amanda Welch
the address is
she likes seashells, rollerblading and English class
has a baby brother named Billy
collects or trades beanie babies
full names of her mother, father, and brother
her home telephone number is
she’s probably home by 5:30 weekdays
or Mom arrives home from work then
She lives at 618 Hammerstone Drive in Laurel, Maryland
specific directions to her home
what public schools are nearest to the her home

55. MySpace.com (facebook.com, xenga.com)
A blog – short for web log
42 million members
Dishonesty
Inadvertent exposure
Threats and fear
Confessional
Innocence destroyed
Age 14 and up

56. MySpace Cases
14-year-old Judy Cajuste found strangled and naked in Newark, NJ garbage bin. (Jan 2006)
15-year-old Kayla Reed found dead in a canal not far from her home in Livermore, CA (Jan 2006)
16-year-old girl was attacked by a 37-year-old man who read her profile on MySpace.com and tracked her down at her after-school job (Jan 2006)
17-year-old college freshman was murdered by man who found her info. at MySpace.com (Sept 2005)
33-year-old Hughson, CA firefighter was arrested for having sex with a 16-year-old boy he met on MySpace.com (March 2005)

57. MySpace Cases (continued)
Sen. Jeff Sessions insisted one of his staff members dismantle her MySpace profile after she posted a picture of her bare midriff with her pants open and the waist of her underwear showing (Feb 2006).
An employee of a large consulting firm was routinely reviewing posting on the networking website facebook.com to screen prospective employees (New York Magazine, Nov 2005).

58. Prevention: Three-Prong Solution
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Prevention: Three-Prong Solution
Shared responsibility between the
1. Public (Parents, Schools, Libraries)
2. Technology Industry
3. Legal Community - Law Enforcement & Public Policy
Each provides an essential layer of protection
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59. Public Prong Role of Parents, Teachers, and Librarians -Rules N’ Tools
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Public Prong
Role of Parents, Teachers, and Librarians
- Awareness, education and empowerment
-Rules N’ Tools
Both are essential, one without the other is ineffective
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60. Technology Tools Desktop solutions Server-based filtering
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Technology Tools
Desktop solutions
Filtering (set filtering levels)
Monitoring- software and/or checking cache
Server-based filtering
“Go lists/Suggest lists” (Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages)
White lists - Pre-approved sites (Dotkids Domain)
Safe Search Engines
Filtering solutions are not 100% effective
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61. Legal Prong Government and Law Enforcement
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Legal Prong Government and Law Enforcement
Aggressive enforcement of current laws (child pornography, obscenity, child stalking laws)
The public should not have to shoulder the burden of protecting against illegal content and criminal activity
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62. Legislation in the Courts
Child Online Protection Act (COPA) - Adult verification required - ACLU, ALA challenge-enjoined.
Child Pornography Protection Act - Extend law to include computer-generated child porn. Supreme Ct struck down.
Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) - Requires schools & libraries to filter - ACLU & ALA challenge (March 2003).
New Laws and Rulemaking: Spam, Deceptive Marketing Tactics, Mousetrapping

63. Rules ‘N Tools Go over Rules N” Tools handout
Rules N’ Tools - Parents Pledge
Rules N’ Tools - MouseClick Buddy Check
Youth Internet Safety Contract

64. Ages 4-7 If child is introduced to Internet, be present at all times
You and your child should have the same address
Use a restricted white list

65. Ages 8-11 (age of likely child sex abuse victims)
Most restrictive Internet filter (no chat)
Get to know your child’s online activities and friends
Teach them not to interact with people they do not know offline
Discuss anonymous behavior
Discuss how they feel if you discover they’ve been sexually exploited
Keep lines of communication open
No chatrooms, no IMs

66. Ages 12-14
Set filters accordingly (categories- sex, nudity, violence, drugs, etc)
Limit time online
Approve buddy list and explain
Disallow chatrooms and explain
No online profiles
No blogging sites

67. Ages 15-18 Stay on top of your teens online activities
Continue filtering
Do periodic spot checks/possible monitoring if you suspect dangers
Discuss healthy sexuality vs. porn messages
Learn about your child’s friends’ online activities
Prepare them for college where they will have no Internet guidelines
I recommend that you limit IM and block chat
Carefully monitor blogging sites

68. Open and Honest Communication
Have you ever seen pictures on the Internet that make you uncomfortable?
Has anyone online ever said to you that made you feel uncomfortable?
Have you been contacted by someone you don’t know in person?
Has anyone asked you for personal information?
Has anyone asked to meet you in person?

69. A guide to parents: How to surf MySpace
The best resolution is simply for a youth not to establish a personal blog
MySpace private – allows members to control others’ access to their profiles
Let teens read of the dangers of MySpace and similar websites for themselves since teens can be skeptical of parental advice
Here's some advice for new browsers.
Become a member
Once logged on, click on the link "search." MySpace gives members several options for searching.
To find your child, search using his or her address.

70. A guide to parents: How to surf MySpace (continued)
5. If that fails, search using the "Classmate Finder" option. Type in school's name and state, and then click on the school name. MySpace then allows you to "refine your school search." Options include searching for current students or alumni. Make sure, when adjusting the "between ages" criteria, to have generous search criteria. Many high school students inflate their age, saying they are 21 when they are actually 16 (or younger).
6.Scroll down, and you'll see thumbnail pictures of MySpace profiles. Click on the picture, and you'll be taken to the teen's MySpace.

71. MySpace.com (cont.)
7.Not every teen links to his high school. But if you get onto the MySpace of one student, chances are they've linked to other students at the school. You can find these by clicking on the link "View all friends."
8. Once on a person's MySpace, an interesting place to look at is the "view more pics" link, which is right under the photo on the left side of the screen. This is where members post photos, and other members comment on them.

72. Warning Signs Hiding disks
Too much time online or online late at night
Picture files taking up a lot of storage space on computer
Unusually sexually curious or active sexually for their age
Unusual charges on your credit card
Computer screen quickly changes when parent walks in room
Youth becomes very secretive or defensive

73. Recommendations if your child has been sexually-exploited
Believe your child
Commend your child for telling you
Convey your support for your child
If your child feels guilty or at fault, try to alleviate self blame
Temper your own reaction - try to be calm and reassuring
EIE Resource List (protectkids.com)

74. …Recommendations
Report suspected illegal activity to local police and to cybertipline
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Locate specialized agency or professional to help your child and family
If your child has been physically abused, locate physician with experience in evaluation

75. Follow-Up
EIE follow-up
Complete Survey

76. Resources
(Enough Is Enough is a national non-profit whose mission is to make the Internet safer for children and families)
Resource List
Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace