New Post: Parents need to talk to their kids about this online danger right now - https://lnkd.in/geFvxnak - Parents typically prepare their children to encounter a variety of risks and dangers in life. Now online safety experts say caregivers need to urgently add another threat to that list: sextortion.The problem isn't new. Bad actors have long pressured teens into sending them sexually explicit imagery, then blackmailed them with it. But online safety experts say evolving tactics and tools, like deepfake software, have made it easier to ruthlessly go after teens for sextortion. A number of victims have died by suicide after being targeted for financial sextortion by perpetrators in organized criminal groups originating from Nigeria or Cote d'Ivoire. Victims who thought they were talking to another teen were relentlessly pressured to pay the scammer money, or else they'd make the explicit picture public. Melissa Stroebel, vice president of research and insights at Thorn, a nonprofit organization that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse, urges parents to talk candidly and frequently to their children about how to stay safe as soon as they get online. This should include discussing sextortion in age-appropriate ways. SEE ALSO: Explicit deepfakes are traumatic. How to deal with the pain. Unfortunately, Stroebel and other online safety experts say parents can't rely alone on platforms to keep their children safe from sextortion. In fact, there are no guaranteed strategies to avoid becoming a target of sextortion. Even if a teen encounters a predator or scammer but declines to send an explicit image of themselves, the perpetrator can steal a photo from their social media account and create an explicit deepfake of the victim, then threaten to send it to everyone they know. But Stroebel says there are ways to reduce the risk of sextortion and defend yourself if it happens. "These are hard conversations to start…they feel a little bit uncomfortable, for a lot of different reasons," Stroebel says. "The reality is, we have to have those conversations way before the moment arises."Discussions should be judgment-free and focus on red flags rather than unrealistic expectations of a child's online behavior, Stroebel says. Additionally, they should help a young person know how to respond if they're extorted, and feel confident they can tell their parent or another trusted adult. How to talk to kids about sextortionIt's not easy for parents to imagine their child taking an explicit picture of themselves, then giving it to a stranger online. But Stroebel wants parents to understand that while it's important to honestly discuss the risks of sharing nudes, many tweens and teens do so, even if they've been warned more than once about it. Young people online also aren't as skeptical of unknown users, particularly if they can see an account
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"It's time for more settings" Let's discuss preferences, updates and a couple of other things. In today's video, we will do part one of closing up the iOS forensics series with the MobileUpdate directory, the root preferences directory, and some other stuff. Feel free to watch this video if you want to learn: What the iPhone stores in the preferences, how the iPhone represents updates it receives in the file system, how the iPhone stores system root-related data, and how the system stores system-related assets. Watch the video to learn all of this information. If you want to learn more and haven't checked out my channel, make sure to do s. Like, comment and subscribe so that more people can take advantage of this content and learn forensics. https://lnkd.in/gZbxUm6x #iosforensics #mobileforensic #mobileinvestigation #iosinvestigation #iOSinvestigator #iLEAPP #apple #appleinvestigations #appleforenics
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Phones for school age kids 🚸 Great 👍 information for parents with school age children 📓🚌 and beyond... New Cell phones📱for kids dubbed “Feature or Dumb” phones without being a smart phone 📵. Schools should be able to easily adapt to strict basic policies and rules so every parent can stay in touch with their kid(s) during the school day ✏️📚 and for emergency situations. These phones are actually sorely needed for all kids that should not have apps to distract them at school, homework, sleep time & beyond. Especially just to look up anything 👀 on phone innocently or texting can have very scary consequences… To All Parents… According to SentryPC they claim one in 33 youth have received aggressive sexual solicitation online. That report includes being contacted by phone, asked to meet in person, sent gifts, money, or correspondence. 40% of children ages 9 to 14 report chatting with strangers online and 53% of those kids gave their phone numbers to a stranger! Parents can truly help protect their children by strict privacy settings, rules and limiting any game content at all. Speaking to your children (at any age) about the threat of predators is a very serious subject and should be an ongoing family dialogue. **Please always feel free to join in the conversation and/or comment respectively.
Alexis Ohanian Sr. on Instagram: "For kids, dumb phones > smart phones. Parents need to be able to stay in touch, but smartphones are just too distracting when kid’s are in school. My take? There’s a business opp here."
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Parents get in here, let's take a wake-up call from this disturbing incident. If a cousin can do this to her blood, tell me that single thing she can't do to an outsider. To begin with, a 12-year-old with an iPhone, unsupervised and exposed to mature content, is a recipe for disaster. What happened to kid-friendly tablets and toys? Handing over a sophisticated device without proper guidance and control can have devastating consequences. Also, the fact that a child would try to cover up a violent act as this suggests she has been desensitized by graphic content from movies and videos. Before we defend our choices, let's consider the impact on other children who interact with ours. We can't afford to neglect our responsibilities and put innocent children at risk. Let's take responsibility and ensure our children's exposure to content is age-appropriate and supervised. ~OAK
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I had so many problems accessing Jim’s contacts and photos after he died. Don’t let it happen to your loved ones! Set up your Apple Legacy Contact! The feature makes it easier for you to leave specific people access to your data after your death. Before this feature was released, it was very difficult for loved ones to access an Apple account of a family member or friend who died. Without the phone's passcode or iCloud information, surviving family members sometimes had to get a court order for access to a deceased loved one's digital data. Here's how to do it: -Open Settings on your iPhone -Tap your name at the top of the page -Select 'Password & Security' -Choose 'Legacy Contact' -Choose up to five family members or friends -You'll receive an access code. Print it and keep it in a safe place with your other estate planning documents. Your Legacy Contacts will need to provide that code and a death certificate to access your account. Hope this helps! The MBW Team x #apple #digitalassets #digitallegacy #willwriting #estateplanning
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How Broken Are Apple’s Parental Controls? It Took 3 Years to Fix an X-Rated Loophole. A great piece in the The Wall Street Journal 📎 Simple hacks evade many parental control features - e.g. changing the phone's time can reset daily limits; uninstalling and then re-installing forbidden apps makes them available again; harmful content can be sent via .doc or .pdf etc. A Parentkind poll found that 47% of children with parental controls knew how to bypass them. 🗝️ Most parental control software doesn't work if a child browses on 'private mode' or with a #VPN. 🔐 Even if the software worked perfectly, it still requires all parents in a #peergroup to act collectively. If one child has a smartphone without the right parental controls their friends will still access content that "once seen, can't be unseen". Rather than act #alone and be forced to deal with the #stressful pleadings and scheming of an #addict, parents need support to act #collectively and in concert with their child's #school. That is why Smartphone Free Childhood is helping families to form pacts to delay buying their child a #smartphone, and working with schools to help them become genuinely smartphone #free. Delay Smartphones #mentalhealth #screentime #addiction Let Grow #education #smartphonefree #parentalcontrols #KOSA
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Any idea of how to reach Debbie Route (from Wakowski’s MSU group long ago)? This iPhone works better than a MacBook computer - on which I have an excellent photo of Albert Ave (as you play the piano). Would attach it here, but am not that savvy yet (or ever). Airlift from computer to cell phone? But the permanent server is not operating well - w/ intense back pain disrupting concentration). Of course recall your texted photos of River Terrace, but might Apple support help? Tried a number of times w/ very limited success (even sitting hurts w/ all else worse). Hope all is well there, but palliative measures don’t work for degenerative situations. How is Rachel’s osteomyelitis? Is she fighting hard, which I’d like to do too. Never found even casual friends around here in 20 years, which still eludes me. Had to return to the house w/o more liquid assets - as I stay on 1 floor & avoid all else. Amazing what ‘.
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Can you remember what life was like without mobile phones? We could actually go for hours without getting messages. Many of us are now overly attached (addicted is such a strong word) to 'keeping on top of everything' through constantly looking at our phones. How about we each/all commit to a rethink and repositioning of our phone usage? This article will help guide us. Our lives will be better for it - whether we want to think that or not! See how you get on. j
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are keeping the topic of cyberbullying in the forefront to help parents and kids cope through the Archewell Foundation. Now, parents are reaching out to help parents navigate to be more aware of their children and their access to the internet. Remember to: 1. Monitor Your Child's online activities. 2. Have tablets, phones, and computers in a safe space. 3. Encourage your child to ignore cyberbullies 4. If your child appears withdrawn seek the help of a professional #cyberbullying #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness
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