Safe Families 1 Online Safety for C4’s Bil Mooney-McCoy, Director, Safe Families TechMission

2 What is meant by “ONLINE SAFETY”? Safety: the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions. Some agent = the Internet Defined conditions = the Computer Center Adverse Effects  Pornography  Contact with Sexual Predators  Other Dangers

3 Pornography: General Stats  As of 2003, 1.3 million pornographic websites (N2H2, 2003)  The total porn industry - estimates from $4 billion to $10 billion (National Research Council Report, 2002).  Adults admitting to Internet sexual addiction: 10% (28% are women) (internet-filter-review.com)  More than 20,000 images of child pornography posted online every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 10/8/03).  1 out of every 6 women, including Christians, struggles with an addiction to porn (Today’s Christian Woman, Fall 2003)  51% of pastors say cyber-porn is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, 12/2001)

4 Pornography: Youth-Specific Stats  9 out of 10 children aged between eight and 16 have viewed pornography on the Internet, in most cases unintentionally. (London School of Economics January 2002)  Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography: 11 years old (internet-filter-review.com)  Largest consumer of Internet pornography: age group (internet-filter-review.com)  Adult industry says traffic is 20-30% children (NRC Report 2002, 3.3) “Never before in the history of telecommunications media in the United States has so much indecent (and obscene) material been so easily accessible by so many minors in so many American homes with so few restrictions.” ---DOJ

5 Online Perpetrators  1 in 5 children who use Chat rooms have been approached by pedophile online (Telegraph.co.uk. 1/02)  2 in 5 abductions ages 15-17, due to Internet (San Diego Police Dept.)  76% of victims in Net-initiated sexual exploitation cases were 13-15, 75% were girls. "Most cases progressed to face-to-face sexual encounters" - 93% of the face-to-face meetings involved illegal sex. (Journal of Adolescent Health, November 2004.)Journal of Adolescent Health

6 Other Dangers Many unmonitored, no parental approval required Often rude, obscene, defamatory, very sexualized Children tend to share personal and identifying information including pictures  Problematic Content Non-pornographic Sexual, Gore and Violence Pictures, Racist/Hate/Occult Organizations, Illegal Drug Use.  Chat Rooms, Blogs and Message Boards Music, Videos, Software file sharing is usually illegal Lots of exchange of pornographic files and other unsavory files Prone to infecting computers with Adware and Viruses  Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

7 TechMission Safe Families Focused on protecting children in at-risk communities from pornography and other dangers on the Internet

8 Goals of the TechMission Safe Families Program TechMission is launching our Safe Families Program in 2005 with the goals of: – Providing training and educational materials for parents, churches, and community organizations in at-risk communities to protect their children online – Distributing over 100,000 copies of free Internet filtering software

9 SOLUTION “SAFETY RULES & SOFTWARE TOOLS” (One without the other is ineffective)

10 Options for Internet Tools 1. Client-based Filtering – We-Blocker: Free – Norton Internet Security: $4/computer – Other software $20-50/year 2. Router-based (Server-based) Filtering 3. Monitoring Software – Good for accountability or added protection

11 Client vs. Router Based Filtering Client-Based FiltersRouter-Based Filters Installed on each machineInstalled on Internet Connection More difficult to maintainMore complex to administer Easier to have unwanted bypassHarder to have unwanted bypass Easier to enable staff-bypassDifficult to enable staff-bypass Adjustments to each machineAdjustments made centrally

12 Free Client Internet Filtering: We-Blocker (We-Blocker.com) FREE! Windows only Customizable

13 Discounted Internet Filtering for Labs Discounted filtering (Norton Internet Security 2005 for less than $4/computer via techsoup.com; labs only) techsoup.com Norton Internet Security 2005 is a suite of products that, together, provide firewall protection, Internet connection intrusion prevention, privacy tools, virus protection, spam filtering, and Web browser content filtering for your desktop computer.

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18 Router Based Tools Zyxel HS-100 HomeSafe Router $50.00; $34.99/year for Cerberian subscription &indexcate1= &indexFlagvalue= Belkin Wireless G Router ( F5D7231-4) $60.00;$19.99/year for Cerberian subscription after 6 month trial Id=&Product_Id= Linksys Parental Control Router (WRT54GS) $75.00; $39.95/year to Netopia subscription

19 Monitoring Software  Doesn’t block, simply reports  Sends to peers or accountability partners  Red-flags questionable or objectionable web site visits  Impractical in computer center, but useful for families or personal accountability.

20 Free Monitoring Software: X3Watch Monitoring Software FREE Ministry of xxx.church.com Regularly sends list of questionable web visits to selected recipients

21 For Fee Monitoring Software: Covenant Eyes Monitoring Software $6.99/mo. or less Pricing for households/ministry staff/businesses Regularly sends detail of ALL web visits to selected recipients

Safe Families 22 Safety Rules: Implementing an Online Safety Program in Your C4

23 Steps to Implementing Online Safety in Your Computer Center 1. Develop and Post Acceptable Use Policy for Computer Center 2. Install Internet Filtering Software on all lab computers or install a server/router to filter for all computers 3. Train all computer lab participants in online safety and lab use through an online safety presentation 4. Always have a lab monitor in the computer lab and train them in enforcing the rules

24 SAFETY RULES Acceptable Use Policy for Internet Users  Outlines responsibilities and privileges  Should be posted; reviewed and signed by all center clients  Needs to address illegal activities such as copyright violations, drugs, gambling, child porn, sexual solicitation, viruses, hacking, online harassment  Need to determine if different standards will be implemented for children vs. adults  Consequences for violations should be clearly stated and practiced.

25 SAFETY RULES Rules are needed for staff as well  Organizations are vulnerable to sexual harassment or hostile workplace lawsuits for allowing employees to view and download pornography  Organizations can be liable to copyright owners for allowing employees to download files without owners’ permission

26 Things to Include in an Online Safety Presentation  Review computer center acceptable use policy  Instructions for what to do if objectionable content appears  Safety Tips – Instruct youth never to plan a face-to-face meeting with someone that they have met online – Teach youth never to give out personal information

27 Resources for Implementing an Online Safety Program in Your C4  Netsmartz (  WebsafeCrackerz (  TechMission Safe Families – TechMission is developing an online safety presentation template for C4’s to use to implement their own online safety program (

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30 Best Practices AC4 Recommends that C4’s  Do not allow any chat rooms or file sharing programs  Do not allow pornography or other “adult” web browsing for all users Other Practices  Always have a lab monitor in the room with computers in a public area with screen easily visible to staff  If lab is mainly used by children, set your homepage to be a kid- friendly search engines

31 Kid Friendly Search Engines  Ask Jeeves for Kids (  Yahooligans (  OneKey (  Kids Click (  Education World (

32 Additional Resources  WebSites netsmartz.org/ enough.org/ protectkids.com/ isafe.org netsmartz.org/ enough.org/ protectkids.com/  User Groups/Message Boards SafeKids/NetFamily Newsletter NetFamilyNews.org Children's Online Safety Consortium  Each other

33 Future Safe Families Services  Free Internet Filtering CD  Internet Safety Presentations --for C4 Participants --for parents --for pastors and ministry leaders  Internet Safety Toolkit for Churches and Ministries