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11/20/2008: ""Witch Hunts on the Internet""
"Witch Hunts on the Internet" is available at last as a download from Echelon Press (www.echelonpress.com). It's a fictionalised account of online p0rn, the danger of chat rooms and the lengths a mother will go to to protect her daughter.
As far as Internet safety goes, it's an important book, particularly for parents, but also for all Internet users. "Witch Hunts on the Internet" shows you just how vulnerable and exposed you are.
Let me tell you a story. Yeah, a true one. 6 years ago, if all you knew about me from an online chat was my first name (a reasonable detail to disclose, you might think), the country I lived in (many chat rooms showed that by default) and that I enjoyed playing a game called Diplomacy (something I did not reveal on any website, but may have theoretically mantioned in a chat)... so, if you knew those 3 things about me, you would have been able to get my surname and address. Scary? You bet.
Anyway, if you want to watch the book trailer, here it is: http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=769350327da055d185356c&skin_id=5&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=email
Yvonne Eve Walus on Thursday, November 20th 2008 @ 06:48 AM GMT [link]