We decided to take a different approach to learning about Internet safety in Year 8 this year, so my Y8 students designed and created board games to teach the basics of Internet Safety to younger children. We all enjoyed the learning process – we even enjoyed the testing and evaluation processes too

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The state, civil society, and the private sector should work together to protect kids from harmful websites, said Osman Gunduz, the head of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (AIF) in the and the Director of the Center of Information Systems and Multimedia Technology. Gunduz said that while children are safe in schools, they can be subjected to harmful information outside of school — in public areas, Internet clubs, and at home through the internet. Specifically, the discussions centered around is about access to websites showing pornographic material, or propagandizing terrorism, hatred, or gambling. Gunduz said that no ministry, organization, internet provider, or school is able to protect children alone. He suggested cooperation between schools, parents, and social structures, and the use of technology to create programs that can monitor children on the Internet. Such initiatives are already being enacted. According to Aynur Hasanova, the spokeswoman of the internet provider Azqtel (commercial brand Sazz), Azqtel is working with Azedunet (a common Internet provider in the education sphere) to carry out a joint project that ensures internet safety in schools. The manager of Microsoft-Azerbaijan, Emin Akhundov, said that one of the main ways to ensure children’s internet safety is educational advocacy. He explained that many Azerbaijani porn-sites open on wap-site that can be closed if mobile operators inform law enforcement bodies about the distributors of such information …

A bit of pre-panel tomfoolery, in which one of the members of the “Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism” panel at I-Con 30 demonstrates how his semi-autonomous quadrotor drone works.

On 4 October 2011, European Digital Rights, as well as EDRi Member Chaos Computer Club (Germany), made presentations to the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) of the European Parliament on the new draft Directive on Attacks Against Computer Systems. The hearing was organised by German parliamentarians Monika Hohlmeier (EPP), who is in charge of the Directive in the Civil Liberties Committee and Christian Ehler (EPP), who is responsible for the Opinion of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee. EDRi’s presentation welcomed the diligence with which the Parliament, Commission and Council are working on the dossier, pointing out the main points of the current draft that would need to be eliminated in order to avoid a negative impact from the Directive. The bulk of our presentation was dedicated to the fact that there is a major contradiction in the approach of the European Commission to attacks against computer systems. On the one hand, it is calling for the criminalisation of the “rendering inaccessible without right” of computer data. On the other, it has done absolutely nothing to protest against the increasing activity of the United States to undertake extra-territorial – and even privatised – attacks against computer data in Europe, through the revocation of domain names. The two best-known examples of attacks against European computer data were against a travel agency based in Spain and, more recently, the revocation of the domain name of Roja Directa, also a Spanish …