Documents about the NSA’s Banning of Furby Toys in the 1990s
Via a FOIA request, we have documents from the NSA about their banning of Furby toys. [...]
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I resist sharenting on social media. Does that mean my son and I are missing out, or is it just safer? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Posting can turn into a privacy risk – and in a changing online landscape, it’s become another parental identity marker An old friend asked me recently why I never put my son’s face online. “Can you explain the not showing pics of babies thing to me?” she asked …
Child Exploitation and the Crypto Wars
Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE). She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isn’t the solution. [...]
UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption
Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars. The technical eavesdropping mechanisms …
Have I gone too far in monitoring my children’s online activity? | Annalisa Barbieri
At this stage, being a parent is more about negotiation and trust, says Annalisa Barbieri. Sit down as a family and talk about it – make rules together I have two children, aged nine and 11. We’ve always limited their tech but just before the pandemic, we bought them …
Teaching Cybersecurity to Children
A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children — an age at which Australian kids first attend school — not to share information such as date of birth or full names with strangers, and that …