Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Safe Practices for Life Online (Blog #9)


  1. Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest
  2. The consequences vary!  Students are feeling guilty, are being arrested, are getting suspended, and even in some cyber-bullying instances, committing suicide. 
  3. Definitions:
Sexting- sending inappropriate sexual text, pictures, and videos
Cramming- false or misleading charges on a bill
Cookies- little pieces of information sent to your computer from websites that keeps information about the user
Trojan Horse- a hidden virus that makes you think it is something else
Phishing- online stealing/theft usually via credit card
Spyware- a software that monitors the usage of a computer
Rootkit- gives unauthorized access in a computer to an intruder
Zombie- a hacked computer

4. Your screen name can be seen by anyone so you want it to look professional. All of these are silly and/or have a negative reputation that goes along with them.

5. You don’t want to be portrayed as a person in anyones face, have the reputation of being a bad boy, look desperate and tell others you are looking for love, call yourself hot or fat, or call yourself a super flirt.  It is not professional and if these were people trying to get jobs, they would be disregarded just by these screen names.  

6. Too much information can be harmful, especially for students.  All of these screen names reveal the persons full name, and a number which could be their age, school number or birthday.

7. These are all bad screen name choices.  They are bad because some of them reveal too much information while others are too generic.  Most of these have a negative connotation and they do not identify who the person really is.

8. MadV4! and GKVKKMKV3 and Love_To_Teach2

9. After rating my password, I received a 3 for my score.

10. Most common-Others who know personal things about the student guess their password.  Least common- Other students see the password as the student enters it on a keyboard.

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