Please Read the Scenario and respond to the the questions on your blog page. Copy the prompt onto your blog page then respond.
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R. Cook
The Revealers
In the novel, The Revealers, the students of Parkland Middle felt connected through SchoolStream or as the students called it KidNet where they were able to chat or instant message. Most of you do this nightly through MSN Messenger. With KidNet and MSN nobody could break into or eavesdrop on your conversation without it being known. Not anymore. Today’s technology allows you to assume the identity of another person. Do you really know whom you are talking to in the cyber world?
It is 10:00 pm on a Wednesday night; you have finished your homework and you are chatting on MSN with three other friends. After 10 minutes two more friends ask to join the chat. By 10:30 pm five more people have joined and it is fun; however, there is a joke said about one of the people, rapidly followed by an insult. At first, no one knows how to respond, then seconds later a message pops up stating, “I didn’t say that! It isn’t me saying these things. Someone is using my name. What is going on here?”
What is the issue involved in this scenario? Why is this serious?
What would be a responsible way to handle this situation?
How could a situation like this be resolved? How would one of the three main characters from The Revealers deal with this situation?
Response:
The issue involved in this scenario is that an imposter has intruded and is using someone else's MSN account to misuse it. In other words, a person has hacked! This is serious because people find many cruel and terrible things to do with someone else's account i.e. they may, as portrayed in the story above, insult people, they may spread rumours about that person to his/her friends, or they may insult the person's family, nation etc. The hacker can also insult other people under this person's name. Then the person's friends may also believe this and turn their backs upon him/her, ignoring messages like "I didn't do this," and "Don't believe these messages." These are just some of the reasons of it being serious.
The way this situation can be handled/resolved is that an adult can be asked for help i.e. the adult can work with the person to find out the hacker's identity or the adult can make the MSN account safer by security soft wares.
As portrayed in The Revealers, a person could use Catalina's strategy to show that the rumours and insults about him/her in untrue. And this strategy is that this person could write all the true things about him/her and send it to as many people as possible. And then, some people are bound to believe this person and show their support, and after this the hacker's (if the hacker is still present) messages can be ignored as lies about this person.
2 comments:
I totally agree with you, i mean you never know that what this person that hacked your MSN will do! But sometimes you should not REVEAL your personal identities, especially your password. It's about trust that sometimes there are some limits. Even if it's your best friend, this person can spread it to the whole student body!(which is not good...)
Christina
I wouldn't give my password to anyone... I don't trust a single cell in your body! Okay. On to commenting.
I agree about what you said and I'm not sure Catalina's strategy would work, because this was through a computer, not paper messages. More information in Avita's Rainbowland blog comments.
[avitas-rainbowland.blogspot.com] (I posted those)
I've never thought of the person giving away their password to someone, and that COULD be true. Good thinking, Christina.
There are solutions to the problem as you stated, Anuron. But I think the friends of the hacked person will defend them.
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-Belle, F Block
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