BARRE, Mass. — Working from a beige house at the end of a dirt road, Jeff Bardin switches on a laptop, boots up a program that obscures his location, and pecks in a passkey to an Internet forum run by an Iraqi branch of Al Qaeda.
Soon the screen displays battle flags and AK-47 rifles, plus palm-lined beaches to conjure up a martyr's paradise.
"I do believe we are in," says Bardin, a stout, 54-year-old computer security consultant.
Barefoot...
Colleges using online chat rooms to reach high school students
Friday, June 13, 2014
A curious high-schooler hurls a flurry of questions at a UC Riverside advisor. The student asks about tuition, SAT scores, study-abroad programs, diversity and whether she would need a car.
Once she gets her answers, she leaves. She doesn't bother to say goodbye.
The student was sitting at a computer in the Northern California town of Watsonville. And the advisor was on a computer at UC Riverside.
Colleges nationwide have...
Suspect charged in abuse of girl
Friday, June 13, 2014
A man accused of using Internet "instant messaging" to lure a 13-year-old girl from the Rolling Meadows Public Library to a nearby park has been charged with aggravated sexual abuse, a felony, police said.
Christopher Mundschenk, 19, of the 3400 block of Peacock Lane, Rolling Meadows, was arrested Wednesday, but police said the incident...
Web Addiction: "Talking To Real People Just (isn't) As Exciting." Lured Into The Black Hole Of Cyberspace, Some Aren't Able To Return To Earth
Friday, June 13, 2014
Indeed, no numbers exist to support claims that Web addiction is becoming widespread as more people jump on the Internet, partly because academics are just now starting to research the phenomenon.
But consider that this most modern of maladies already has its own online support groups and its own acronym, IAD, for Internet Addiction Disorder, a name assigned in 1995 by New York psychiatrist Ivan K. Goldberg. And reflecting...
Aurora man gets 20 years for child pornography
Friday, June 13, 2014
An Aurora man, one of four Illinois men charged in 2006 with trading child pornography through an exclusive Internet chat room, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison.
Alan Jungels, 45, pleaded guilty to receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography in a deal with prosecutors in January. He is one of about 30 people in the U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada who were charged in connection with the "Kiddypics...
If you have an opinion, at least show your face
Friday, June 13, 2014
You name it, I've been called it.
Stupid, ugly, pathetic, lame, ridiculous, fake, ignorant.
But, of course, never to my face.
No, these insults and rants were delivered via the Internet. In blog responses, in chat rooms, in e-mail.
In this age of virtual communication, where we can hide behind handles and noms de plume, it seems people have become more confident, more cunning and way more reckless with their jabs and threats.
To...
Deft deceptions in 'Dark Play' and 'Drawer Boy'
Friday, June 13, 2014
When does a lie take on a life of its own? Two very different plays, running within blocks of each other on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park, tackle that question.
"Dark Play, or Stories for Boys" ***
Carlos Murillo's "Dark Play, or Stories for Boys" transplants the bizarre-but-true story of two British boys whose lives become twisted through one of the kids' online fabrications (reported by Judy Bachrach seven years ago in...
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