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...
Special Report: From abuse to a chat room, a martyr is made - Jane's Jihad
Friday, June 13, 2014
* Chapter One in a four-part series
(Reuters) - "Kill him."
The American who called herself Jihad Jane read the words on her computer screen. Colleen LaRose was fiddling on the Internet, passing time in her duplex near Philadelphia, when the call to martyrdom arrived from halfway around the world.
The order came from an al-Qaeda operative. The date: March 22, 2009.
This was it, she thought. Her chance. At 45, LaRose was...
Banks consider ban on chat rooms after rigging probe: sources
Friday, June 13, 2014
LONDON (Reuters) - Big banks are considering banning traders from some online chat rooms in response to investigations into alleged collusion between dealers over key financial market benchmark rates, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
JPMorgan Chase , Credit Suisse Group and Citigroup Inc , among others, are reviewing chat room use over concerns that some of those forums are seen by regulators as potential venues...
People aren't what they seem in Net chat rooms
Friday, June 13, 2014
Dear Abby: I work in a public library. We do not charge patrons for using our computers or the Internet. People from all walks of life use it regularly. I can't help noticing that some people misrepresent themselves when e-mailing others.
One woman calls herself "Sexy Mama." She corresponds with a number of men. I know for a fact this woman had her children taken away because of physical abuse. She has poor dental hygiene,...
RBS clamps down on multi-dealer online chat rooms - report
Friday, June 13, 2014
Dec 19 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland Group's
markets division has banned the use of multi-dealer online chat
rooms, joining rival banks that have taken similar action in
response to regulatory scrutiny, Bloomberg reported late on
Wednesday.
Chat rooms have been a focus for regulators investigating
manipulation of the Libor and Euribor benchmark interest rates
and possible rigging in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange
market.
Citing...
Online trolls sadists at heart
Friday, June 13, 2014
It's official. People who leave ugly comments on the Internet are sadists and psychopaths, a Canadian study says. That's more elegant than what I call them.
In the wild freewheeling world of the Internet, such creatures are called "trolls."
In the garden of Internet delights, trolls are big ugly weeds. Anonymously or with bold audacity, they invade civil discourse with off-topic messages or cheap, vulgar shots at individuals...
Banks consider ban on chat rooms after rigging probe: sources
Friday, June 13, 2014
LONDON (Reuters) - Big banks are considering banning traders from some online chat rooms in response to investigations into alleged collusion between dealers over key financial market benchmark rates, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
JPMorgan Chase , Credit Suisse Group and Citigroup Inc , among others, are reviewing chat room use over concerns that some of those forums are seen by regulators as potential venues...
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