We talk a great deal about not taking or doing drugs, we have suicide prevention discussions, but, how many of you have had a discussion with your children about the Choking Game? The technical term is “Asphyxiophility” which is comparable to hard drug addiction. The worst is that there is no drug to remove it; your own brain produces the endorphins, making you feel high. Adolescents are at an increasingly high rate of danger of not just passing out when “playing this game”, but actually suffocating themselves or choking themselves to death.
Many people say that this game is played for the high, but, it’s also played for the shock factor and for children who have never “played” it, it can be even more risky. These children are not sure how far they can take it before it takes over them. Also, when in large groups, children as we all know, do stupid things. Being in a group of your peers and playing this game, is very scary. You never know when one child might be brutal or a big enough bully to actually push this too far, and cause irreprehensible damage, and even death.
Once addicted to this form of “play” or this “game”, you risk many health problems, not just death. You are also in danger of passing this on to others. Some counselors and psychologists have outlined ways to help adults (children too, but they should seek counseling one on one) overcome these over-powering thoughts and desires. Reading more on ways to help yourself and/or your children may just save a life.
What behavior traits need to be developed in order to accept personal responsibility?
In order to accept personal responsibility you need to develop the ability to:
Seek out and to accept help for yourself.
Be open to new ideas or concepts about life and the human condition.
Refute irrational beliefs and overcome fears.
Affirm yourself positively.
Recognize that you are the sole determinant of the choices you make.
Recognize that you choose your responses to the people, actions, and events in your life.
Let go of anger, fear, blame, mistrust, and insecurity.
Take risks and to become vulnerable to change and growth in your life.
Take off the masks of behavior characteristics behind which you hide low self-esteem.
Reorganize your priorities and goals.
Realize that you are the party in charge of the direction your life takes.
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The Internet is a powerful and modern means for communication. It breaks down global barriers, it connects people, expanded the scope of our knowledge and it’s time saving. We can get all the information we need with just a click of the mouse. It is amazing how the Internet has expanded itself completely and has provided users many positive opportunities.
Internet has also become a way of life in our society; it affects our lives on a daily basis. It has changed the way we receive news, listen to music, apply for jobs, go to school and connect with friends. It also changed the way we transact business, do our work, enjoy entertainment and shopping.
But, there are serious negative aspects in using the Internet. One of the biggest issue and problem is when we become victims of cyber crime. That is why, it is very important to be aware that while we are surfing the net, we are protected of certain rights. One of the very important rights - is the right to privacy.
ONLINE PRIVACY
A basic definition of online privacy is to control the access of public to your personal information securing you through secrecy and seclusion to protect you from any harm. The best Managed PC Care on the planet…
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D., is about to leave for Phoenix, where she and other advocates will be briefing the Arizona state legislature on privacy issues associated with new remotely-readable, spychipped “enhanced” driver’s licenses. If you are in the area, you are invited to join us on Thursday evening for a public town hall meeting on the topic sponsored by the Arizona ACLU tomorrow night.
As you may know, several states, including Arizona, Washington, Vermont, and New York have agreed to issue the RFID-tagged cards for border-crossing purposes. The idea is that state residents who voluntarily pay an extra $40 to receive the remotely-trackable cards will be allowed to cross more “efficiently” into Canada or Mexico, since border officials will see them coming before they reach the guard station.
To anyone who’s clued in about RFID, the spychipped driver’s licenses are a complete privacy nightmare, however. They can be silently read from 20-feet away, through a person’s wallet, pocket, backpack, or purse — even when the target is in a moving car. They are unencrypted and contain a unique ID number that can be used to identify and track people miles from the border — indeed, anywhere the government chooses to put a reader.
But it’s not just the government that could use the cards to track and surveil people. Anyone with a rudimentary RFID reader can remotely access the the unique ID number on the card. Retailers could use them to ID customers as they walk in the door. Marketers could use them to track people around the store. Stalkers could use them to track their victims. Terrorists could scan for them in crowds and pinpoint Americans traveling in other countries. Hackers could duplicate the signal emitted by chipped licenses to impersonate people. The list of potential abuses for the ill-conceived ID card are staggering.
If you are in Phoenix and would like to learn more, the ACLU is hosting a Town Hall Meeting tomorrow evening (Thursday, 3/13) at 7:00 PM at the University of Arizona. She will deliver a PowerPoint presentation on RFID-tagged ID cards and sign books after the event, so be sure to bring your copy of Spychips (or you can pick one up while you’re there).
The event is free and open to the public. Further details are available below my signature, or on-line here: Press Release
If you cannot attend in person, please send your prayers and well wishes with us to the state of Arizona, as we work to inform the public about the encroaching police state.
Your Online Security Authority,
Bill Wardell
Please support, Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering — Opposing supermarket loyalty cards and other retail surveillance schemes since 1999
International Sex Trafficking Is a Well-Known Problem, But It Happens Here as Well,
Feb. 9, 2006 — Fifteen-year-old “Debbie” is the middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student — the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the seamy world of sex trafficking.
But Debbie, which is not her real name, is one of thousands of young American girls who authorities say have been abducted or lured from their normal lives and made into sex slaves. While many Americans have heard of human trafficking in other parts of the world — Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and eastern Europe, for example — few people know it happens here in the United States.
The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19, with the
average age being 11.
And many victims are no longer just runaways, or kids who’ve been abandoned. Many of them are from what would be considered “good” families, who are lured or coerced by clever predators, say experts. “These predators are particularly adept at reading children, at reading kids, and knowing what their vulnerabilities are,” said FBI Deputy Assistant Director, Chip Burrus, who started the Lost Innocence project, which specializes in child- and teen-sex trafficking. [More…]
Also, Join us as we interview Somanjana C.Bhattacharya of Love146.org she is over the Public Relations & Communications Division… Soma has offered to be on our special guest on CHW Friday’s, show dedicated to: End Internet Trafficking and the Coalition that has been started to stop this on Craigslist and other legitimate business, that are facilitating these types of crimes…
Please Join us this Friday, 14th 2008 on our CyberHood Watch live radio show, and ask Soma your most pressing questions…
A keylogger is a program that runs in your computer’s background secretly recording all your keystrokes. Once your keystrokes are logged, they are hidden away for later retrieval by the attacker. The attacker then carefully reviews the information in hopes of finding passwords or other information that would prove useful to them. For example, a keylogger can easily obtain confidential emails and reveal them to any interested outside party willing to pay for the information.
Keyloggers can be either software or hardware based. Software-based keyloggers are easy to distribute and infect, but at the same time are more easily detectable. Hardware-based keyloggers are more complex and harder to detect. For all that you know, your keyboard could have a keylogger chip attached and anything being typed is recorded into a flash memory sitting inside your keyboard. Keyloggers have become one of the most powerful applications used for gathering information in a world where encrypted traffic is becoming more and more common.
As keyloggers become more advanced, the ability to detect them becomes more difficult. They can violate a user’s privacy for months, or even years, without being noticed. During that time frame, a keylogger can collect a lot of information about the user it is monitoring. A keylogger can potential obtain not only passwords and log-in names, but credit card numbers, bank account details, contacts, interests, web browsing habits, and much more. All this collected information can be used to steal user’s personal documents, money, or even their identity.
