For the past month or two I’ve received e-mails from a new organization called The Internet Protectors. Basically it’s a site dedicated to teaching people about Internet safety. It isn’t up and running yet - but hopefully it will be very soon.
Internet security (and computer security in general) has always been an interest of mine. In fact, a little hobby of mine is disassembling new viruses and figuring out how they work and act. Because I am so interested in it I support the goal of The Internet Protectors 100%.
So how can you help them? It’s simple - if you know a bit about Internet safety (or are interested in it at all) sign up and check it out. Even if you aren’t interested in it you can still help out by simply keeping yourself safe and teaching others good Internet habits like using multiple passwords and rotating them, not looking at porn (if an 18 year old male like me can live life without looking at it - I’m sure everyone can!), being careful what they download, and so on.
One of the more interesting subjects that has popped up in recent years is the explosion of Internet bullying. In fact, I feel this subject is more important to me than any other internet safety topics. I’ve only been the victim of cyber bullying a few times, but back during middle and early high school I went through a really tough time with some assholes in school - so I know how bad bullying in general can get (I thought about stuffing their heads up their butts quite a few times - and eventually I did kick their asses [don’t mess with nerds!]).
Internet bullying is a real thing - and it does happen. In fact, one of the local schools claimed quite a few fights this year were linked to cyber-bullying on MySpace. Now that is scary - but it isn’t a surprise. Heck, there’s even little pathetic nerds who are threatening each other over HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. That’s how pitiful some people are. Really, I think the thing that will kill humanity is the fact that the majority of people are becoming overly offended, violent, and they don’t understand how educated debates work (instead they threaten to kill each other all because of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray).
So there is a lot to be concerned about - viruses, trojans, privacy invasion, bullying (and possibly, cyber-bullying that becomes real-life bullying), scams, theft, and so on. Hopefully The Internet Protectors does some good. I’ve actually thought about starting a blog dedicated to writing about security in a way that even idiots can understand it, and it still is a thought.
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
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