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BBC - Newsbeat - Pupils 'bypassing school internet security'
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Con Mallon from Symantec carried out a scan on a random selection of free proxies.
“There is a site which is hosting what we call a trojan. It may invite you to install some software onto your machine.
“Once that is installed, it allows the bad guys to come back to your machine at any time... what they would probably then do is install something called a keylogger.
“It will sit there and monitor what you are typing-in. What they are really looking for is passwords and logins.”
Proxy 'problem'
Such information, once harvested, can be sold online.
Amongst our school pupils, the news comes as a surprise: “I didn't have a clue that people could get my information if I was putting it in,” said one girl.
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Technical solutions need to be used as one aspect of a wider approach to protecting users, including educating children, teachers, and parents in how to use the web safely
JANET spokesman
“I kind of had an idea that it stays there. But I didn't know it was that big – that it could log everything,” added her classmate.
Attention 102
Howard Rheingold's discussion of "attnention literacy" in a wired classroom.
Minimizing Classroom Disruptions: EXCELLENT LInks
From eSchoolNews. Links to articles on AUPs, filtering, research, remote desktop monitoring, etc. Outstanding.
The 1-to-1 Learning with Laptops Advocate
Good resource for parent outreach. Top priority.
Advocating for your 1-to-1InitiativeEducators and school leaders all over thecountry are having to explain, justify, and defend their learning withlaptop programs to school boards, community members
High School Rollout.
Note Wes Fryer's links relevant to 1:1 high school rollout. (And check Wes' del.icio.us tags for 1to1.)
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