[LINK] itNews: Tas Police fed up with Social Media

[Richard Chirgwin]

Apologies for top-quoting, but:
> it's not only 'computer hackers' who perform social-engineering attacks
> on rule systems. kids test boundaries to find the limits and the
> available exploits.
...is very pithy.

RC

On 16/07/12 1:48 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:03:34AM +1000, Jim Birch wrote:
>> This is an example of the popular intuition that the Internet is
>> somehow official or something so higher standards apply and the
>> government is responsible, when in fact the opposite - it's down to
>> you baby - more often applies.
> i thought it was because schoolkids today are taught to be gutless
> dobbers rather than to stand up and defend themselves. in fact, they get
> punished for defending themselves (verbally or otherwise) - it seems as
> if it's a worse "crime" than the initial bullying.
>
> the "innocence of childhood" is bullshit and children are nasty vicious
> amoral self-centred thugs - what bullies learn when their victim runs
> and dobs rather than defend themself is that they are, in fact, a victim
> and can be targetted again in future.
>
> even worse, they learn that a *very* effective bullying technique is to
> accuse their victim of bullying, thus engaging the allegedly responsible
> adults around them to do the bullying and victimisation for them.
>
> it's not only 'computer hackers' who perform social-engineering attacks
> on rule systems. kids test boundaries to find the limits and the
> available exploits.
>
> craig
>