Paperback 8.5 x 11: PROTECT ALL THAT IS YOURS – children, data, information, and know how to recognize, deter, avoid, and report cybercrime, identity theft, online fraud, child predators, computer infectors. This book is a complete basic explanation of internet safety and cybercrime prevention for the home computer user. This book doesn’t care which operating system is in use or the level of computer experience. Topics include: children online, cyberstalking, fraud, home computer security, ID th
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Of the several books Roddel has written about the Internet, this appears to be the most extensive and advanced. Much of what is written is for the parents of children who might be at risk through various activities on the Internet. To a large extent, the contents include the material in her other books.
Some of the advice in this book might be problematic. For example, on page 33, it recommends that for children visiting chatrooms and using instant messaging, that they or you hide your IP address. This can depend on the chatroom or IM software. Fundamentally, you cannot hide the address, because this is needed for any two way interactions. (Unless you use an anonymiser, but that is another story.) Perhaps the chatroom software has an option so that your interlocutor cannot get the address. Which really only works when the software is running on some server computer, that both you and the other person are accessing. It is not guaranteed that the software will let you do this.
Elsewhere, she points out that usernames are descriptions. So that “they should not indicate your race, age or gender”. [...].
The chapter on online fraud is best suited for an adult reader, who is more likely to have money to lose in such frauds. Most of the advice is valid. But occasionally a little too sweeping, as in “Legitimate charities do not solicit or advertise for donations through email”. Not quite. A charity affiliated or run by a religious organisation might have a mailing list of co-religionists, and it could send out appeals for donations for various worthy and real causes. I think what the text is trying to say (or should say), is that real charities are unlikely to ask for donations via unsolicited email. In other words, there are two qualifications to the book’s statement – “unlikely” and “unsolicited”.
The book is lengthy enough to warrant an index. Unfortunately, that is lacking.