Pandora’s Blog

Bob Sullivan at MSNBC did a very length in-depth piece on parents’ misunderstanding of tools available to them to help keep their kids safe online… i.e. monitoring software (have I mentioned PC Pandora is the best?). Unfortunately, he goes to the regurgitating media go-to person, who has schilled for our competitors in the past, but don’t [...]

I haven’t done this in a while. I like to showcase various news reports on the overall issue of safety and offer my ingenious commentary. Hah…
Seriously though… below is an excerpt from a great story done by Linda Brees of The Greenville News in lil’ ol’ South Carolinny. This isn’t a rebuttal, as [...]

Truly sickening.
Donald W. Rager, 41, was a part-time police officer in Gurnee, Ill., and owner of a security business, Millcreek Protection Service, in Grayslake, Ill. He was also a former president of the Fraternal Order of Police and his entire life was devoted to protecting the safety of others.
This sick piece of dogsh*t also traveled [...]

Special Saturday post here because this is timely – the state of PA Attorney General’s office is doing a contest called Operation Safe Surf, to promote Internet safety for Pennsylvania teens.
The contest, co-sponsored by Microsoft and Comcast, is part of an initiative to keep kids safe on the Internet and was open to all Pennsylvania [...]

I came across this guy’s blog, Dr. Frank Kardasz (ED.D.). According to his blog page, he “is an Arizona peace officer assigned to the investigations of Internet crimes against children.” On the page I have highlighted below, he wrote an excellent piece – based on much research and news articles, not just opinion – on [...]

I thought this was worth posting. A lot of sites have posted this bit of research from the University of Missouri, concerning the communication process that predators use to lure victims into a web of entrapment. Thought it does not have to do specifically with online luring and more with real life encounters, it can easily [...]

The big news today is from Massachusetts where the Supreme Judicial Court said for the first time, on Friday, that sexual predators could be prosecuted for communicating with their potential victims over the Internet.
Now, before I paste the article, I want to give you my thoughts:
There is a lot of hoopla over the fact that [...]

This is a great story and one that I hope other children of this age will remember:
Hampton girl, 12, helps police nab Internet predator
From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
A Hampton girl is being credited with bringing an Internet predator to justice — and potentially saving the life of a friend.
Jennifer Yeager, 12, a sixth-grader at Hampton Middle [...]

I thought this was the cutest video ever on Internet safety. It is done by 6th graders and teaches a good lesson:

Visit TeacherTube for more videos and blogs and other items covering a variety of topics… You can use the search within the video player to find other videos on Internet safety.
Nothing really to do [...]

So I have decided, subconsciously at first, to do this once a week… when I have pulled together a good amount of stories from around the country to showcase the plethora of sickos arrested, caught or tried every week for trying and in some cases succeeding in having sex with minors they met online.
Here we [...]