Barb, I spray glass cleaner onto a soft cloth, and then clean my device screens. Never hurt them yet. Just wipe dry immediately.
Frybabe, that link is so scary, yet I am sure all countries already are aware of this, and I fear there is no turning back, when we had a possible chance of stopping this cyber infiltration. The big corporations, such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are making billions of dollars in dealing "with" China, regardless of what harm it may bring to America. The hearings yesterday showed these CEOs come before the committee, act all pompous, and treat the senators as if they are below them, and unintelligent. Granted, the average person in congress probably does have far less knowledge than any of these tech giants, but it does not alter the fact they are aware of the monopoly they have, and the damage that they could be causing other nations, all for the sake of greed and power. Our kids are NOT safe in this world of technology, and any parent who thinks they are monitoring and setting privacy settings to keep their child from predators, are fooling themselves.
I remember back in 1984, when I began the computer lab in our Catholic Elementary school. The internet was just becoming available to schools, our principal and pastor were so anxious for me to get us up and running. I began teaching my students the safety of the internet, and how vital it is to never assume someone is who they say they are. I had this one Jr. High student whose I.Q. was a bit above the rest of his classmates. One day I walked into my lab, turned all the computers on, opened my email, and boom, I was hit with pornography. This truly scared me. I went to my principal immediately and told him what had happened. The first question was, "Who sent these?" It came from a name unknown. He asked me to print the pictures so he could show them to the police, and have a hard copy on file in the event something would cause them to be wiped from the computer.
At this time the internet was barely all the buzz. I came home on Friday, very concerned, feeling so violated, and duped. I had taken so many workshops about internet safety, how on earth did this happen in my lab. I started browsing the internet using key words that was in the email. I was obsessed, and determined to find who sent those emails. All week end long I was on my Apple desktop computer, surfing and entering key words to get some lead. Finally I happened to see a name I recognized who went to our school. I followed that site, and read some posts, kids were bragging about how they can hack people's email. The student who was in this site, was the son of a teacher in our school. I notified her, and she was horrified. Talking to her son, she was able to get him to tell her that one of his friends, who also went to our school was over their house on a day off of school. They were using the computer, and he said he went to get them snacks and drinks and left John (not real name) alone with the computer. With that information, I was able to do some more tracking and found John had what he called a "manifesto" and he was mentioning how he was smarter than his school teachers. Well, as we continued this investigation, with the help of a detective and local police, we verified the email did indeed come from the other student's computer, on the day John was over. We called in the student's parents and explained to them what their son had done. They were shocked! We asked them if they would be willing to help us question their son in the office so we could basically get him to confess he did this, so we could stop any further problems. They agreed, and their son came down to the office. When he saw me, a police officer, the principal and his parents, he looked like he was going to throw up. His parents took the lead in asking him about when he was over to his friend's house, if he had used their computer. He of course, lied and said NO. The police officer explained to John, that we have proof that he was indeed on the computer, and that we know that the email sent to the school was from that computer, at the exact time he was at the friend's house. First John looked straight at me and smiled. I felt my blood go cold, it was as if he was saying, he was proud not only of sending the emails to me, but that I was smart enough to track him down. Very creepy!
After the police officer explained to him what laws he had broken, and how because he is a minor, his actions are the responsibility of his parents, he then broke down in tears and began apologizing. That was like I said, back in 1984, when kids were not nearly as desensitized, as they are today to human emotions, and violence. Technology, video games, music, cell phones, etc., etc., has turned today's kids into an addiction with unfeeling emotions, not caring or even realizing how cyber bullying can harm others.
I'm afraid we can no longer put the proverbial cat back into the bag. I fear our country and children will never be safe, regardless of what laws are passed.
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