CYBERWATCH

WARNING:

MANY BROKEN LINKS -- I NEED TO UPDATE THESE DOCUMENTS!

Cyber-Safety for Everyone: from Kids to Elders. (PDF)

This booklet was distributed to everyone at Norwich University in August 2002. It includes all of the articles below in updated form plus additional material. Everyone is welcome to download this PDF file and print it for non-commercial use. I will be especially pleased if it can be useful to teachers in middle and high school and in freshman computing classes at colleges and universities.

Individual Topics From An Earlier Series of Articles

Pedophiles on the Internet

Online Dating and Cybersex

Hate Groups

Pornography Online

Bad Information from the Web and the 'Net

Hoaxes and Myths Online

Virus Hoaxes

Threats to You and to Others

Malicious Software

Junk E-mail

Chain Letters and Ponzi Schemes

Get Rich Quick? Not likely.

Don't Steal Software, Music and Video

Plagiarism Online

Criminal Hacking and Your Kids

High-Pressure Scam

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UNITED STATES POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE AWARENESS VIDEOS:
DELIVERING JUSTICE -- BY PERMISSION OF USPIS

If you have high-speed Internet access, you can download the very large ZIP files below and unpack them using the directories included in the ZIP. The server for this Website has a maximum outband bandwidth of ~90 Mbps, which implies a minimum time at maximum speed of about 2 minutes for the download. On a T1 (1.5 Mbps) inbound line, it should take about 2 hours per GB* to download one of these files.A T2 (6 Mbps) line should take around 30 minutes/GB. A T3 (44 Mbps) would download 1 GB in around 5 minutes. Note, however, that if you are linking in via a 56 Kbps dialup, it could take at 53 days. . . .

* GB = Gigabyte (1.073e9 bytes); Mbps = megabits (1.048e6 bits) per second.
Note that 1 B (byte) in telecommunications actually has more than the usual 8 bits because of start and stop bits; the rough approximation is about 10 bits per Byte.

To order physical DVDs, visit http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/pressroom/videos.aspx

Identity Crisis -- identity theft (694 MB)

Web of Deceit -- phishing (640 MB)

All the King's Men -- recovering from financial fraud (857 MB)

Work@Home Scams: They Just Don't Pay --money laundering by mail (370 MB)

Nowhere to Run -- international phone fraud (699 MB)

Dialing for Dollars -- money for nothing isn't (1.2 GB)

Long Shot -- playing foreign lotteries is illegal in the USA (440 MB)