Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues

Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-04-18

SEATTLE -- High-schools students have a message for their parents: Trust us with technology. Security and privacy? We have it covered.

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-19
Dazzed

I agree, there should be more open discussion within schools informing children and young adults about the dangers on the Internet, and the importance of maintaining privacy....

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-19
Andy Smart

I'm a school network manager.

To be honest, and no disrespect to the students involved in this, I think they are probably overestimating their knowlege when they say they've got a handle on this. IMHO teenagers often believe that they know far more than they do on a lot of topics, I've seen kids...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-19
A 20 Year Sysadm and Father of Four (4 replies)

Teens need to remember that the parents are responsible for the actions of the child. In that respect you have no right to privacy as long as you live under you parents roof and they are supporting you.

What you do after you move out is your business and also remember your parents have no need t...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
HelpDesk

Talking about what they feel seems like a good thing to me. I think they made some good points about awareness and the need for parents to take responsibility. I also think you made a few good points as well with leading into the parents being responsible. All can live in harmony with a gentle de...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
25yo who grew up with computers

ive grown up with the home computer industry, there wasnt a time when we didnt have one at home. However i had some very decent and forward thinking parents, other than a curfew i had no actual rules.

And because i had nothing forced onto me, and my parents respected my intelligence and common se...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

I have to disagree with that, teenagers need to have some privacy, its like respect.

How do you know that this group of teenagers have not even scratched the surface?

I'm 16 and I know I have a whole lot to learn still, things that can only be learned in a real-life career but I'm positive I'v...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-25
Anonymous

I am a SysAdmin/NetAdmin/Manager and father of two. One 17 and one 10.

I have to agree with the 16 y.o. on this one. Teenagers have a right to privacy. That you support them does not mean that they are property. They are persons and deserving of the respect and rights that gives them.

The jo...

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Re: Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2008-08-21
Anonymous

I agree and disagree with what you are saying, yes we are reponsible for our children and yes we want to protec t them, but if you bring up your child to be responsible and to be repectful, then at age 16 as parents we do have to give them some privacy. 99 times out of 100, your teenager will probal...

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Laughable 2005-04-20
Andy (1 replies)

Yeah, ok. I see my older teens and their friends and they don't have a clue about internet privacy. They must have talked to a small % of tech saavy teens, but as a general rule teens feeling free to roam about the net and to sign up for everything presented to them will disclose anything when ask...

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Laughable 2005-04-21
Anonymous

Yes, and the same applies to most "adults". Weren't there some recent surveys done that demostrated most people would reveal their password for a piece of chocolate?...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-20
Anonymous (1 replies)

For the most part, kids are still dumb, thats why they can't drink, vote or hold any public office. They have no real understanding of their experiences and think everyone old "just doesn't understand what we have to go through". same old story with every generation. Go do your homework kids....

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Re: Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2007-05-01
Anonymous

I think that you are totally out of place for calling teenagers dumb because from my understanding you were a teenager once in your life don't stereotype teenager because some of them aren't doing good things that doesn't make the rest of us dumb. I truly think that you are very Dumb for say that......

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-20
Tech Teaching In CA

Good article - as a high school tech teacher, I understand what the student's were saying in the article, and that most students have a better understanding of current technology. Like many other issues, however, is the difference between understanding and experience. Just because an adult may not c...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-20
Anonymous (6 replies)

The title should have been -- "Teenagers are stupid too."...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-21
One of the teens in question.

First, as a member of the age group thats being discussed, let me humble myself (and the rest of us) to those that know more than we do. Some of us think we're infalliable, others of us don't stop to think about all the dangers online, and some of us aren't even aware of everything that happens behi...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
TechSavyTeen

WhoaWhoaWhoa

I think the people replying to his board need to calm down.

Im a 17 Yr Old Senior outta NY. And i do say. The only reasonable posts here were by the Network tech and to the first poster about parent's responsibilty.

KIDS ARE NOT STUPID.

everyone thinks we are. But i can tell...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-23
Anonymous

I'd be more inclined to say the title should be "Teenagers CAN be stupid too". Although many of the comments in this discussion were directed at clueless teenagers they can still apply to clueless adults (of which there are no lack) i.e., those who have answered Nigerian email scams etc.. On the ot...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-23
Anonymous

Just by reading these replies the teenagers make a very valid point! Parents and educaters are dumb! They will completely remain so, long as they treat kids as some sort of property and not as respectable human beings. The fact is that WE are the cause of the dangers out there. When we have such...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-23
Anonymous

Due to popular belief not all children are stupid. I agree that many are completely clueless when it comes to security/privacy. 95% would not know what a 'proxy' was or even a firewall. And well talking about router's or NAT would just zap their brain. However there are some very able, in tune child...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-25
Anonymous 8

I tend to agree with others posters' comments. I attended that CFP panel session panel. One of my takeaways was that teens' basic experiences and understanding of privacy was limited to their relationships with their parents, and perhaps to stalkers.

Beyond this, they really didn't seem to have muc...

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Unrealistic perspective 2005-04-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

The entire article was so removed from reality, it's completely useless. They're talking to a 'panel' of kids who are attending a tech conference. KIDS attending a TECH CONFERENCE. What fraction of the 13-18 age group are knowledgable enough to appreciate anything at all that takes place in said con...

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Unrealistic perspective 2005-04-28
Anonymous

"But I may be overly cynical" thats an understatement. No internet in schools? I'm a student in high school right now and I have to write quite a few papers on stuff that you MUST have the internet to use for research and whatnot.

The benefit of the internet in schools is immesurable, so theres...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
Anonymous

I am numerically much older than my attitude. I am a father of 3, the youngest is now 19. I am a creator of technology, on many different levels. I tend to agree that younger people have a better idea of what is going on out there than many older folks. HOWEVER, you cant stereotype all older peo...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
Teacher

While we are here examining the issue... our kids are online chatting with sex offenders, findout how to make drugs in the basement, using your credit card to gamble, .... (they are also doing great positive things). Maybe we should all reread the article and see that the students reflect a less tha...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
inf

Heh, being a teenager myself i can safely say most people i know have no idea about security online. I have fixed peoples computers for them before, every one has tons of spyware, rbots, and tons of other random crap all of the place. All this while they use credit card details on paypal and ebay et...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues (of course we do) 2005-04-22
Chris Coel (2 replies)

Teenagers dont have their brain 100% developed.. About our mid 20s (a year or so after college for some) the brain has stopped growing.. As teenagers, the part that is under construction is the front (Reasoning). I am myself a teen (18years old). An example.. If im online on some random IRC chat roo...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues (of course we do) 2005-05-01
Anonymous

@Chris Coal

I'm affraid your knowledge on the human brain is incrorrect. The human brain develops well pasts the age of 20 and to be able to "reason" the front part which is your frontal lobe cannot function without your central cortex. So in closing some adults even past the age of 20 are no m...

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Re: Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues (of course we do) 2007-07-29
Anonymous

Haha have you even done your math look up the development of the human brain you putz...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-22
Anonymous

I am a teenager, and I don't consider myself stupid. I run Gentoo linux and am well aware of the dangers on the Internet, while my parents are just learning how to use their cell phones properly. I try not to presume that I know everything, as I know that I don't. However, I am frustrated every day ...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-23
young father

Most of the comments seem to be written by adults and parents, and so as a 22 year old father (2 year old son and another on the way), I think that these students have an excellent idea. The parent side of me agrees that they should not be "free from monitoring" as both teens and adults are becomin...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-23
Old Mom; savy Mom

It is much better to know that you don't know, than to think you know when you don't.

The world of most teens has not been broad enough so they can know that they are playing in heavy traffic... with a blindfold. The discussions with them may make more sense if there were a "safety game" rather li...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-24
Teen (1 replies)

I believe that the level of security and intrusion on privacy that a parent imposes upon their teen should be relative to the idiocy and naivete of said teen. Also, keep in mind that the parent's of extremely tech-savvy students have a virtually impossible task ahead of them in terms of securing th...

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Re: Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2007-05-16
Anonymous

why can,t young teenagers trust their parents? why can,t we all just be honost with each otherand try to help each other get through what ever situation comes across our path....

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-24
Anonymous

Hmm.. Yes, I hear this all the time. My classmates at school have web filters on their systems and they're sooo pissed off that they can't access their 'h0t pr0n'. I'm almost 16 years old, but I actually know **something** about computers unlike the clowns who went to some random privacy confrence...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-24
Anonymous

I think that this article talks about a major problem we have in this society. The crux of the article is how parents are invaiding the privacy of the students. As was stated in another reply, the parents are RESPONSIBLE for the conduct and actions of the students. Parents are the ones that KNOW ...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2005-04-25
dekker

I must agree with the elder ones. Teenagers today think, that they know everything about the technology, but they have no idea. Sure, there are some teens, that could teach us something about technology, but the percentage is really low.

Netiquette and internet safety are very important issues. It ...

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Wake up! 2005-04-25
Aldoliel

I think that lot of the people need to open their eyes a bit to what is going on around them.

Firstly, saying that parents have more "experience" than their children on the subjuct of the internet is incredibly naive. The internet has been in widespread circulation for less than 10 years and many ...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2006-07-10
Anonymous

well i am a teen and i thought i should shed some light on a childs perspective. The first thing is that your kids probably know more about computers than you. This is't the kids know everything kind of speach this is a fact in some cases. You should always give your kids space just as long as this...

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How Do You Want Your Children To Live? 2007-08-16
(Insert Unrelated Nickname Here)

There are some very cynical people posting on this topic. They need to open their minds and look at this issue from all sides. Would you liked to be called naive? Would you like to have no privacy? Would you like to be considered untrustworthy and stupid? Put yourself in someone else?s shoes, for th...

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Teenagers struggle with privacy, security issues 2008-03-05
Yazmine Rodriguez

I think that some parents dont know what to do with their own life to be dealing with the childrems. I feel that, each parent havae to understand each teen and know that we are going in our own way.. WE ARE MOVING OWN IN A NEW WORLD..............................

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