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Kids' Codes Baffle Parents Learn Lingo And Keep Computers in Public Space, Experts Say
Believe it or not, summer vacation is just around the corner. With more free time on their hands, some kids will want to spend it on the Internet.While parents are constantly urged to monitor their children’s computer use, most don’t know or recognize the language kids use to let people know their mom or dad is watching.
In fact, Netlingo.com estimates 95 percent of parents cannot identify the “secret codes” kids use to outwit them.
It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Fauquier County Detective Todd Durica knows more about computers than most people. He represents the Sheriff’s Office on the United States Secret Service computer crimes task force in Washington, D.C.
Last year, he also received extensive training in computer forensics at the National Computer Forensics Institute in Birmingham, Ala. There, he learned how to access information from a suspect’s hard drive and make an image of it in order to retrieve evidence without compromising it.
Even he couldn’t identify the acronyms listed in a blurb on Internet safety from a Liberty High School newsletter.
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