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Teens Online No Big Deal To Parents
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-10-25
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People with teenagers may not think the Internet is as good for kids as they thought it was a couple of years ago, but they don't think it's any worse, either.
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Despite stories of sexual predators threatening the well-being of youngsters online, Internet-savvy parents aren't real concerned, or excited, about the influence the Internet has on their teens.
The Pew Internet report on 'Parent and Teen Internet Use' said parents are more concerned with the content teens see online, and on TV and video games, than the amount of time they spend with that content.
The report covers data collected in October and November 2006; Pew Internet just released the report this week.
As far as good or bad, 67 percent of parents surveyed in 2004 thought the Internet was a good thing for the kids.
That was down to 59 percent in late 2006.
Yet the percentage of parents who see the Internet as a bad thing only moved up a couple of percentage points over the past three years, from 5 to 7 percent.
In 2006, 30 percent of parents thought the Internet had no effect, good or bad, on teens, compared to 25 percent in the earlier study.
Parents are more aware of what their offspring do online, particularly in social networking, according to the study.
That's a good thing, as there have been far too many incidents of sexual predators attempting to lure minors into private encounters both on and offline.
Security Fun With Firefox Extensions: The Hackosis site has a list of ten Firefox extensions for security uses.
The extensions offer features like penetration testing, intrusion detection, and cookie protection.
The MozDev project Firekeeper looks particularly interesting.
It's billed as an intrusion detection and protection system for Firefox, which works similar to IDS stalwart Snort in describing browser attacks.
Firekeeper is in alpha, which means security pros may want to try it out on a non-production machine during this feedback-collection phase of the project.
The potential for stopping attacks and blocking content sounds promising.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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