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Nobody's safe as Stilgherrian turns his laser focus onto Australia's IT industry in a weekly podcast.
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Most Australian parents are concerned about the safety of their children online. But new research shows that parents don't back up their concerns with meaningful actions, and that in any event they might well be concerned about the wrong risks.
Research by "For Safety's Sake" (PDF) for Microsoft Australia found that while 64 per cent of parents were concerned about cyber-safety, 65 per cent don't use any parental control software and 62 per cent allow their kids to access the internet unsupervised.
Parents perceive their kids to be more at risk accessing the internet from friends' homes than their own, and rate the risk from online predators as being more dangerous than exposure to pornography. In turn that's seen as more dangerous than bullying, which is seen as more dangerous than identity theft.
Few parents knew who their children's friends were online.
In Patch Monday this week, Stilgherrian discusses the research results with Microsoft's chief security advisor in Australia, Stuart Strathdee, as well as with child protection expert Karen Flanagan from Save the Children Australia. Both point out that the risks are not as they seem, and provide some practical tips.
Plus we have the usual idiosyncratic look at the week's IT news headlines.
To leave an audio comments for Patch Monday — and we're particularly interested in hearing parents' thoughts on cyber-saftey — Skype to stilgherrian, or phone Sydney 02 8011 3733.
Useless survey. There is no indication of the age distribution of the children involved, other than they are under 18.
Report offensive content Reply (0) (0)Problem is that "kids" probably know more about that malware crap than the parents.
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This is a serious problem. And it's becoming all-too-common these days, people don't want to have to think for themselves and this is where you get idiotic, unworkable responses from the government like their "mandatory internet filter". It makes parents feel good because they can think their children are "safe" without having to do anything themselves.
People need to start taking some more personal responsibility.