Re: ideas needed

[Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca>]

On 2011/07/20 6:00 PM, CP Constantine wrote:
> A good exercise for kids is sort of a re-work of the 1980's
> dont-talk-to-strangers campaign. (which was basically, no matter how
> much info they have that indicates they actually know you, still deny
> trust). is getting kids to ask themselves, how much info about them
> would a stranger have to know about them, before they might think this
> person was actually a trusted family friend:- now put much less than
> that online.

One thing to be cautious of when trying to educate kids is the same
thing that campaign tripped over. Turns out that kids aren't actually
all that much endangered by strangers; parental kidnappings are far more
common, as is abuse. Whoops.

Something I see a lot (and this is a general comment inspired by yours,
not an attack on yours) is ITSec folks getting *really* strident about
OMG DO NOT SHARE ANYTHING EVER IT IS UNSAFE AND YOU WILL BE RAPED AND
KILLED.

Kids get messages like that a lot. About everything. They get
overloaded, and tune you out. Hell, they tune you out anyway, but
there's no reason to give them a real reason to do it. :-) So be
moderate in how you present things.

Mike
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