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Social Networking Web Sites and Consequences of Misuse

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Digital footprint video

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Coping with cyberbullying

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Anti-Bullying Alliance | United against bullying

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Explanation: Findings from an online survey of 3,713 LGBT young people aged 11-19 in Britain. The survey, which took place between November 2016 and February 2017, found that 45% of LGBT pupils were bullied for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans.

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Protecting your data online

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2. SHRED

Shred or destroy personal items you are throwing away, such as bills, receipts or bank statements, that show your name, address or other personal details.

3. SEND SAFELY

If you have to post personal documents, ask the post office for advice on the most secure method.

4. CHANGE PASSWORDS

Use different passwords and PINs for different accounts and take extra care when using public computers to access your personal information.

5. DON'T SHARE

Always think about who you are giving your information to. Be cautious about providing any personal details to unsolicited callers by phone, fax, post, email or in person, unless you are sure they person is who they say they are. If you are suspicious, ring the organisation back on an advertised number or visit their website.

6. STOP SPYWARE

"Buy a good anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam software package to protect your computer against viruses and any spyware software which can be used to obtain personal details." says our expert.

7. PROTECT YOUR TEXTS

An app called TigerText allows text-message senders to set a time limit from one minute to 30 days after which the text disappears from the company's servers on which it is stored and therefore from the senders' and recipients' phones.

8. DESTROY DATA

Researchers at the University of Washington are developing a technology called Vanish that makes electronic data 'self-destruct' after a specified period of time. Instead of relying on Google, Facebook or Hotmail to delete the date on their servers, Vanish does the job.

9. GO OFFSHORE

Some companies, such as Connectinprivate.com, offer 'anonymous and non-traceable offshore browsing' for £5 a month. It's done via a virtual private network, or VPN, which connects to the internet on your behalf so web services think you're located in Canada, for example, rather than London. The VPN knows where you are, but in keeping with Canadian law, keeps no log of your activity.

10. UPDATE YOUR BROWSER

Microsoft plans to increase privacy options in the upcoming version of its Web browser Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), including the ability to prevent tracking by third-party websites.
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Digital Footprint Articles

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by Justin Boyle

If you've scratched your head over suggestions to manage your "digital footprint," you aren't the only one.

A surprisingly large percentage of people have never even heard the phrase, let alone thought about how to manage theirs responsibly. Among students, the percentage is probably higher. We'll talk about ways you can help students understand and manage their digital footprints before they get themselves in trouble.
The Definition Of A Digital Footprint
Simply put, a digital footprint is the record or trail left by the things you do online. Your social media activity, the info on your personal website, your browsing history, your online subscriptions, any photo galleries and videos you've uploaded - essentially, anything on the Internet with your name on it. Digital natives like today's students rarely think twice about putting their names on things online, so their footprints can be pretty wide.

Luckily for us all, most of the major sources of personal information can be tweaked so we share only certain things with the general public. There are even some third-party bonus tools available to manage the parts of our digital footprints we might not know were there.

If you want to show students their digital footprint (or take a peek at your own) the personal info search engine Pipl.com is a great resource. Sometimes just seeing the breadth of info about us that exists online is enough to spur us to action.
1. Use Privacy Settings What To Tell Your Students About Monitoring Their Digital Footprints: 11 Tips
Let's talk Facebook, shall we? Chances are pretty good that your students can be counted among the 1.3 billion monthly active users of the social media giant, and there's practically no other website that contains such a breadth and depth of personal information.

Encouraging students to put all of their social media accounts, including Facebook, on a short leash might be the most important step toward helping them manage their digital footprint. Look into Facebook's proprietary privacy tips or get the works from Lifehacker.com with it's "Always Up-to-Date Guide to Managing Your Facebook Privacy," then inform students about the steps they can take. Better yet, just pass the links along.
2. Keep A List Of Accounts
Complete privacy on Twitter is simple - you just choose to protect your tweets under "security and privacy" on the account settings page - but encouraging students to do so might do more harm than good. Some teachers have gotten great results using Twitter in education, and a class full of students with protected tweets might interfere with that.
3. Don't Overshare
Then delete the ones you no longer use. That myspace page you signed up for? Don't just forget about it-find it and delete it.

Perhaps the best tip for helping students maintain privacy on Twitter is one that can be applied across the whole spectrum of social networking tools: Don't overshare. As much of an alien concept as it may be to students these days, the only sure-fire way to avoid digital footprint trouble is for them to keep quiet about anything they wouldn't want to share with everyone in town.
4. Use A Password Keeper
This includes usernames, aliases, passwords, last names, full-names-as-usernames, pictures, addresses, and other important information.
5. Google Yourself
This is more of a security thing, but the worst kind of footprint is the one you didn't make that contains all of your sensitive information. It's too much work to remember 50 different passwords, and every site has their own unique rules. Until someone solves this problem, the best solution is likely a password keeper
6. Monitor Linking Accounts
You may be surprised what you find.
7. Use A Secondary Email
When you link your facebook or twitter account to that new site (whatever site that might be), you may not realize-or care at the moment-what you're giving it access to. It's usually safest to use a secondary email address to sign-up for new sites rather than granting this kind of access.
8. You Don't Need 12 Email Addresses
Whether you're communicating with someone new, or signing up for a new social media platform, it can be useful to have a secondary email address.
9. Sending Is Like Publishing-Forever
That said, you don't need 12. Keep it manageable.
10. Understand That Searches Are Social
Every time you send a message, post, or picture, you're publishing it the same way CNN does a news story. And the internet never forgets.

There's another side to your digital footprint, too - it's not always information that you choose to make public. Remember: Privacy controls or no privacy controls, Facebook still records and uses every scrap of information it gets to better determine its users' marketing demographics.

Google pulls the same trick with search and browsing habits. If a student is logged into their Google account, the service tracks every keyword they search, every Web page they visit and every time they visit Youtube.
11. Use Digital Tools To Manage Your Footprint
There are ways, however, to control the bits of deep data that we leave strewn around. First of all, even though Google is practically an official synonym for "Web search," it isn't actually the only game in town. Less profit-motivated search engines like DuckDuckGo.com and Ixquick.com may take a little getting used to, but they do make explicit policy of protecting users' browsing privacy.
Conclusion
A host of browser extensions and app add-ons can also limit the surreptitious capture of personal information. Disconnect (Disconnect.me), DoNotTrackMe (Abine.com) and Ghostery (Ghostery.com) are examples of cross-platform extensions that block tracking cookies and give users control over site scripts.

There are also some extreme measures. Browsing from behind a virtual private network, or VPN, puts a layer of thick fog between online activity and real-world identity. If even that isn't enough for your suddenly privacy-hungry students, there's also the nuclear option.

You may have heard of Tor, the multi-layered proxy client that's a go-to for anyone looking to access the fabled Deep Web. By routing your IP address through multiple proxies, Tor protects users from anyone anywhere ever knowing who they are or what they're looking at.

Of course, full online anonymity would also require students to avoid all login-based media (including app stores like Google Play), which can be a harder task than they're ready to accept. It may also be important to remind them that while we're not browsing in a vacuum and we're very rarely actually anonymous, most of our deep data is probably pretty benign.
Justin Boyle is a writer and multimedia designer who lives and works in Austin, Texas. He contributes to several websites, including OnlineSchools.com; image attribution flickr user penbentley and kyteacher; What To Tell Your Students About Monitoring Their Digital Footprints
Just make sure to let them know that everything that they post, tweet, comment or like is going down on their permanent record. Honestly, everything. That ought to get them thinking, at least.

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Cyberbullying Article

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Staying safe online

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Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Ning, Digg, MeetUp, blogs, etc., -- the number of social networking sites and tools is exploding. Social networking is the killer app of the Internet for everyone - not just the texting teenybopper crowd. Such sites have breached the walls of the corporate firewall, are a part of our most important smartphone apps, are a vital tool for any serious job search, and are the new way to connect with current and new friends. Social networking is about self forming groups, a dynamic author Clay Shirky examines in his book Here Comes Everybody: The Power Of Organizing With Organizations. But using social networking tools and sites seems to be in direct conflict with another important principle of using the Internet - protect your identity from identity theft. Participating in online social networking sites leaves a trail of personal information that can make stealing your identity a whole lot easier. What's a current-day Internet user to do? Should we go blithely along like a fish protected in a larger school of potential identity theft victims, or maybe we should forego social networking altogether? No and no. Instead each of us should take responsibility for protecting ourselves. On the following pages, I bring you my top 12 tips to help you practice safe social networking.
(To quickly flip through this list, check out the slideshow version, 12 tips for safe social networking.) TIP 1 - Beware of TMI: the five things you should never share
Social networking means opening up and sharing information online with others, but there's some information you should never share online. Protecting yourself from sharing Too Much Information (TMI) can save you from identity theft and even protect your physical safety. So let's start with the obvious ... never share your social security number (including even just the last 4 digits), your birth date, home address or home phone number (although sharing your business phone is ok ). Of course, you should protect all of your passwords, PIN numbers, bank account and credit card information.

But I advise you to never share the state where you were born as this information can be used to obtain your social security number and other identity information. Facebook, for example, allows you to restrict who can see your birthday or your hometown (often times the same as your city of birth.) But not every site has these options. In those cases avoid the problem altogether by not entering information you don't want to share. If the sites you are using don't offer these kinds of protections, e-mail them and request these features. If enough of us make the request, they'll get the message.

TIP 2 - Customize privacy options
Social networking sites increasingly give users more control over their own privacy settings. Don't assume you have to take whatever default settings the site gives you. Check out the settings, configuration and privacy sections to see what options you have to limit who and what groups can see various aspects of your personal information. Facebook probably has some of the broadest privacy options, giving you control where no one, friends, friends and networks, or everyone can see basic info, personal info, photos, friends and postings.

Search is a new area where users are gaining control of what others are allowed to see. Some sites let you set limits on who can see search results about you on the social networking site.

If you've just joined a social networking site, or even if you have been a user for some time, log onto your account and view and adjust the privacy settings -new settings are often added over time.

TIP 3 - Limit work history details on LinkedIn
Would you put your full resume online for everyone to see? Probably not. It would be too easy for identity thieves to use the information to fill out a loan application, guess a password security question (like hackers did with VP candidate Sarah Palins' Yahoo account) or social engineer their way into your company's network. Limit your work history details on sites like LinkedIn. If you feel you need the added information to help in a job search, expand the details during the job hunting process and then cut back later after you have a position, leaving just enough information to entice recruiters to contact you with interesting new positions.

LinkedIn also offers some capabilities to restrict information. You can close off access by others to your network of contacts, something you don't have to share if you don't want. This is a common practice by sales professionals and recruiters not wanting to expose their valuable network to others who might poach customers or prospects from them.

TIP 4 - Don't trust, just verify
There are lots of reasons (most of them bad) why someone might impersonate or falsify an identity online. It could be as a prank or for "fun" such as those who impersonate a celebrity as satire. Faking an identity has a legit side too - it can be used by people who simply want to conceal who they are in order to protect their real identities. But its also the first step of those who want to embarrass or defame someone else by impersonating them, or steal an identity for financial gain or other crimes. Two security researchers demonstrated at the Defcon/Black Hat 2008 conference how easy it is to set up a Facebook or LinkedIn site using a false or impersonated identity, including links to malicious sites.

The question becomes, how can you verify that the page page belongs to who you think it does before sharing too much information or clicking on links? Start by being on the lookout for anything unusual or out of the ordinary. If the content on the site doesn't look like or sound like the person you know, avoid it. E-mail or call your friend to verify the site is legit. Let them know, too, if you think someone else is faking your friend's identity online.

>TIP 6 - Avoid accidentally sharing personal details
TIP 5 - Control comments Blogs are beginning to use authenticated commenting systems like IntenseDebate (acquired by Automattic, the makers of WordPress blogging software.) Anonymous blog comments (marked as anonymous) are fine but some goofballs get their jollies leaving comments under someone else's name. It probably happens more often than we think. Commenting systems like IntenseDebate allow users to make anonymous or unregistered comments, or registered users can login and leave the comment as a verified user, letting others know it really is them. Contact the site administrator immediately if you find someone is impersonating you on a social networking site or in blog comments. Most reputable sites will take down the impersonated content. If they won't remove the content, ask that they note you've contacted them indicating you didn't leave the comment or personal page.

You wouldn't put a note on your front door stating, "Away for the weekend... Returning on Monday." Micro-blogging tools like Twitter and What are you doing right now? features in Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites make it easy to let details slip you wouldn't otherwise tell friends or strangers. Be aware of what information you put out there which others might use for nefarious purposes.

Micro-blogging tool are a bit like the proverbial frog in slowly warming water that's eventually brought to a boil. Over time, seemingly innocuous information can be pieced together, giving lurkers a much more complete and rich picture of you, your family, your habits and other personal information. Software like Twitter is often used at conferences, parties and other social scenes where alcohol is consumed. That makes it even easier for personal details to slip out for the world to see. Twitter users frequently use it to communicate and share their travel woes, giving clue to others that you aren't at home, leaving your family or possessions at risk for intruders. Just keep that in mind as you share tidbits of your life on micro-blogging tools. You might want to be a little bit less specific in your tweets.

TIP 8 - Don't violate your company's social networking policies
TIP 7 - Search yourself It is a good idea to search your name on Google and check out your profile as others see it on social networking sites. Understand where you show up and what information is available about you, and then adjust your profile, settings and habits appropriately. Don't worry, it's not vain if you only search your own name once a month or so. If you unexpectedly see your name in locations you don't frequent, it could give you a heads up someone else is using your identity online. Set up a Google alert with your name, which emails you when Google finds your name on sites. While some names, like John Smith, are so common they would generate lots of false positives, you may still find out a lot about where your information is appearing online. Even if you find there are others online with the same name, it can help you avoid confusion, (or maybe it's an opportunity to reach out and connect to someone with the same namesake).

You've probably heard about an employee who was outted when playing hookie because they called in sick but blogged or Twittered about their escapades that same day. But there are more serious reasons you might be let go from your job due to the use of social networking tools. As blogging and social networking sites enter the workplace, so too are corporate acceptable use policies (AUP) being updated to define boundaries for employees, contractors and the company. Data leakage incidents (loss of corporate, confidential or customer information), making inappropriate public statements about the company, using corporate resources for personal uses and harassing or inappropriate behavior toward another employee can all be grounds for reprimand or dismissal. Social networking sites are another way those things can happen and they create an easy digital paper trail to investigate.

TIP 9 - Learn how sites can use your information

Data leakage (or loss) prevention is currently one of the hottest areas in security. Companies are looking for ways to prevent company confidential and proprietary information from slipping through the firewall. Most incidents probably occur via email or file transfers but IM chat tools, blog posts, Twitter messages and even online resume content could disclose proprietary company information. Even using social networking sites on company time or using company resources could be a violation of the company's acceptable use policy. Before you become the corporate poster child for some publically humiliating episode from using social networks at work, check your corporate AUP to make sure you aren't violating the policy.

IP 10 - Forget the popularity contest
Social network sites are typically free to use which means they are making their money by advertising to you. And that means they are collecting information about you. Is your information shared with outside companies and partners? What information can third-party plug-in software, such as Facebook Applications, use from your profile or page content? Review the site's privacy policy and watch closely the privacy settings you can control.

There is currently a lot of M&A activity in the social networking software industry. A significant part of what an acquirer buys when acquiring a social networking company is the community of users on the site. Your account, including personal information, trades hands from the old company to the new one as part of the transaction. Privacy statements on sites like Digg discuss situations like this. The new owners may have new and different plans for using the information contained in the site. Changes in privacy policies may follow an acquisition. Watch for this when you hear about an acquisition and always read notifications about changes to privacy terms, acceptable use policies and user agreements.

TIP 11 - Create a smaller social network
Put a number on something and suddenly you have a competition. The person with the most "friends" isn't necessarily the winner in social networking, unless of course you are running for president or you are in some type of recruiting, sales or media business. That's just more people, including possibly strangers, who now have access to more of your information. It is best to only friend people who really are or have become your friends. Your personal information has less opportunity for misuse. If you do get an unsolicited invite to connect, check them out first and try to figure out why you know them or if you even do at all.

TIP 12 - Setup an OpenID account
For some, blogging and social networking sites are more than casual places for casual connections. Presidential candidates use MySpace and Facebook to reach out to constituents and hundreds of thousands of potential voters. Industry thought leaders and influencers use blogs and twitter to build up communities of readers and followers for business purposes. That may also be your reason for being a part of online communities, but if your intentions are more casual in nature, massive readership is probably less important to you. Some sites, like Linkedin, discourage blind connections and will begin restricting a user's ability to connect if they receive too many I don't know this person responses. Keeping your network to people you really do know helps keep the spam and other unsolicited messages to a minimum too.

Bigger isn't always better. There's more to social networks than MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Self forming communities often form around very narrow topics and these can easily get lost on the bigger sites. You may be better served creating a smaller, more focused network using tools aimed to help narrow or smaller groups such as Ning, or Meet Up. By narrowing your purpose and using tools appropriate for smaller groups, you can keep unwanted solicitations, invites to connect, applications and spam to a minimum. You'll also find you build closer relationships amongst community member.

OpenID is an open source standard for creating a single sign-on to multiple online services and applications. As a framework, OpenID accounts are available from multiple providers. Companies like AOL, Microsoft, Sun, and Novell are beginning to accept and provide OpenIDs. It is estimated that there are over 160-million OpenID enabled URIs with nearly ten-thousand sites supporting OpenID logins.

OpenID is making inroads into the SaaS application market to better manage user accounts. We're also likely to see OpenID used in online social networking sites (for instance, IntenseDebate uses OpenID) to help verify users identities and reduce impersonators and false identities. If the social networking sites you frequent don't use OpenID or a similar technology, e-mail the site creator and lobby for adding it.

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Sexting becoming 'the norm' for teens, warn child protection experts

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"I HAVE NAKED PICTURES OF YOU."

The text buzzed on Ashley Reynolds' phone. School was out for the summer, and she was kicking back on her aunt's porch in Phoenix. It must be a scammer, she thought-even at 14 Reynolds was sure of that. She'd never even taken a naked photo. So she ignored the texts, but within minutes she got another. And another. And no matter what she did, the messages wouldn't stop. "They're going to be sent to all ur friends," she remembers reading. "I need u to take pictures in your bra if u dont want them to see you...."

Reynolds is now 20 and a hospital receptionist in Phoenix, but she can easily recall how scared she felt that evening six years ago, when those threats dragged her into one of the largest cases of a sickening new Internet crime wave. It's called sextortion, in which predators coerce or manipulate someone (often an underage someone) into sending lewd, compromising pictures or videos, many of which are released publicly or traded as child pornography. Although there are no specific numbers for sextortion, it's on the rise; according to the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, reports of online child sexual solicitation surged 44 percent between 2010 and 2014.

Reynolds knows that if she speaks out, the world will learn that she, as a frightened teenager, sent an utter stranger naked photos of herself, and that people may judge her. She also knows that if she doesn't, more children will be tormented. "No question," she says. "I'm going public."
The Dark Tunnel
In 2009 Reynolds was a popular freshman and student government officer. An outdoorsy type who loved to hunt with her family-they called her One-Shot Sally for her accuracy-she was always the one in her girl pack to grab the video camera and get friends to do silly skits. The one to give a courtesy giggle if no one laughed at a joke. She was everyone's friend, and not at all streetwise. "I was just oblivious to bad character, I guess," she says.

The scammer had first contacted her on Myspace, then the second most popular social networking site after Facebook. He called himself CaptainObvious; his profile picture, taken in a bathroom mirror under dull fluorescent light, showed a boy of about 16 with long dark hair. She knew he was bluffing. "I was just like, Ew, and ignored it," she says. But when he instant-messaged her on her phone, she felt creeped out. How did he have her number? "And then he kept saying, 'I'm going to send out your photo.'" Over the next two hours, she tried to stop his torrent of messages. "Dude, leave me alone," she wrote. "Stop texting me." But after a while she began to wonder whether he might have something. Reynolds and her best friend were always goofing around on Stickam, a video chat site-they'd never exposed themselves intentionally, but her laptop was close to the bed. Had she left her webcam on? Could he have snapped a picture, like a Peeping Tom?

He said he'd stop bothering her if she sent him photos of herself in her bra, and for reasons she still can't quite explain, she did it. "All I was thinking was, Just get him off my back," she says. "I'd never heard of sextortion. I thought he would go away." The fact that she didn't worry more about the consequences is typical for her age; adolescents feel immune to danger, says Jane Anderson, an attorney adviser at the nonprofit AEquitas, which trains lawyers how to best prosecute cases of violence against women. "Teens are also digital natives who have grown up with a total lack of online privacy," she notes. "The more you've lived on social media, the less likely you are to question it." Or as Reynolds puts it now: "I thought I could handle it on my own."

CaptainObvious did disappear, but a few days later he was back. "Those pictures you sent are blurry. Send them again," Reynolds recalls him writing. She pushed back: "I already sent you the pictures you wanted. Why are you still bothering me?" But he threatened to release what he had, which terrified her. "I couldn't bear to have my friends and family think I was promiscuous," she says.

So she did it, and from there, his demands escalated: She needed to photograph herself fully naked, he insisted, doggy style, touching herself.... "He had me do stuff that I didn't even know existed," she says. "One time he wanted me to use a brush and put it inside of me. I said, 'Hell no.'" During a surprise party friends threw, he texted her constantly. "I told him, 'It's my fifteenth birthday, please let me go,'" she recalls. "And he said, 'I know. Send me the pictures and you can do whatever you want.'" Eventually just the sight of the ugly brown bathroom doors that were the backdrop in her photos-"the frickin' cheap wooden doors that showed up in all those pictures"-made her sick. By the third month he was asking for 60 pictures, "not per week or month, per night," she clarifies. "It was like I was in a tunnel and I didn't know where it was going to end. I was depressed and afraid I'd get in trouble-the most alone I'd ever felt in my life."

Had she only known there were about 350 other girls in the same dark tunnel.
The Crime That Never Goes Away
What Reynolds was going through had barely been heard of in 2009. But since then, "image exploitation" crimes-including revenge porn, in which a former lover posts illicit pictures to get back at an ex, and naked-photo leaks like the acts of online vandalism last year that targeted Jennifer Lawrence and other stars-have increased significantly. Sextortion, while not as well known as these crimes, is especially damaging because, for one, its victims are largely minors; the average age is 15, with some as young as nine, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Typically predators prowl platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Skype; impersonating teenage boys, they use various methods to hook girls-often flirting, sometimes threatening.

And the salacious photos they collect end up in a teeming underworld of peer-to-peer file-sharing programs. "The vast majority of these guys turn around and barter these images of child pornography online for other images," says Michael Osborn, chief of the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children unit. And victims are never free of the crime. "As young adults, they have to live with the fact that their images are out there being consumed and traded like some type of horrible currency," says D. Rodney Brown, an assistant U.S. attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, who has prosecuted sextortion cases. "I'm not being funny or poetic. Many of the programs where pedophiles go require some 'pay before you play'-you have to provide images to get into them."

Most cruelly, a sextortionist makes each girl produce her own pornographic images; he forces her to victimize herself, an act that can have "a devastating emotional effect," says Martha Finnegan, a child/adolescent forensic interviewer at the FBI. "And that's what society doesn't get: Yes, the girls participated in this. But they're children; they're still very much victims. Even though they haven't been touched, the trauma level we see is as severe as hands-on offenses, because a lot of these kids don't know how to end what can go on, sometimes, for years.... And they think it's not happening to anyone else."

But it is. While Reynolds was trapped in her own private purgatory behind the brown wooden doors, 2,000 miles away Samantha Chonski, a music-obsessed 13-year-old in a Pink Floyd cover band, had been imploring CaptainObvious to leave her alone too. He'd popped up on her Stickam and had a screen shot of her and her friend flashing their breasts. "We had just lifted up our shirts really quick, being so dumb," says Chonski, now 21 and a salesperson for Clinique outside of Philadelphia. "I can't imagine how fast he had to click that and be like: Bam!" She remembers begging him for hours in a chat, saying, "Please don't make me...I'm just 13," and him telling her, "Just this one more thing...."

She was terrified at the thought of those pictures and videos getting out. "I had 2,000 Myspace friends," she says. "I couldn't imagine if all those kids got that stuff. I was already getting teased in middle school." And the FBI's Osborn says those fears are well founded: "We see photos routinely sent out to all the friends at school, church, the neighborhood. And then the bullying begins. We've had many kids who have dropped out; some who have committed suicide." Chonski admits she definitely thought about it.

And she and Reynolds weren't the only ones victimized: From Miami Beach, Florida, to Auburn, Washington; from Mason City, Iowa, to Prairieville, Louisiana; girls were hiding with their phones and webcams and answering CaptainObvious' demands. In Colorado a 13-year-old student became anxious that anyone looking at her on the street had seen her naked. In another school, a bubbly teen stopped seeing her friends; instead, she would later tell a courtroom, she'd come home "and look for places to hang a noose in my room, feeling like there was no other way out."
The Truth Explodes
After four months of relentless demands, Reynolds was losing hope. Then one day in September, while she was at her weekly Christian youth group, her mom happened to be snooping around on her computer. And that day, Angela Reynolds recalls, "there was a message on Ashley's Yahoo account saying, 'Better send me the pictures. Here's a list of what I want.' I realized what he was doing, and I said, 'Please, God, don't let this be happening. Please.'"

Angela got her daughter home and pointed to the email: "What's this?" she asked. Ashley let out a scream: "I don't know who he is," she managed, bursting into tears. "I don't want to go to jail."

Knowing little except that her daughter had been exploited, Angela called the CyberTipline at NCMEC, and advocates there advised Ashley to cut communications with CaptainObvious. But they couldn't track him down to arrest him. He'd made himself entirely unobvious by using proxy servers that routed his communications through China and Brazil, keeping him anonymous. "I'd been so happy it was over," says Ashley, "but then it wasn't." In fact, he was still stalking her, and because she'd cut him off, he did the very thing she'd feared: He posted her photos on Yfrog, and sent a link to several of her Myspace friends. "So I was like, OK, now they're all going to think that I'm this...." She can't make herself finish the sentence. "My mom invited my friends and their parents all over to explain, but she had to do the talking. I was too humiliated to speak."
Nailing CaptainObvious
When FBI special agent Lawrence Meyer got the call from NCMEC in his Jacksonville, Florida, office, it was five minutes to 5:00 P.M. on December 30, 2009, and he was on his way out for the New Year's holiday. Instead he sat down and absorbed Ashley Reynolds' case. Despite weeks of frustration, the NCMEC analyst told him, they now had a lead. In CaptainObvious' rush to release her photos, he hadn't used a proxy server, and they'd gotten an IP address. It belonged to a Comcast account nearby.

Nine days later Meyer showed up at a St. Johns, Florida, home with 14 other law enforcement officers and a search warrant. The real CaptainObvious who'd so sadistically been tormenting a 14-year-old girl turned out to be a 26-year-old named Lucas Michael Chansler. He was living in a room above his parents' garage. The real shock for agents? When they brought Chansler's computer back to the FBI office, they found that the hard drive was a meticulous crime scene, with roughly 80,000 images and videos methodically arranged in excruciating detail. Chansler hadn't just been blackmailing Reynolds; he had been sextorting 350 girls.

He'd created a folder for each, with the girl's name and age; grabs of her social media pages; photos and videos; and their chat logs and emails. Also on Chansler's desktop were photos and videos of teen boys whose images he used when contacting girls. His 60-plus screen names included JosH is Posh, SK8er4life2021, and CaptainObvious.

Worse, agents found a to-do list of 26 demands-pornographic paces Chansler would put each victim through. Depending on how far he'd gotten a girl to go, he'd file her under "Prospects" or "Done," with comments like "Gonna do again." Most of the files were labeled: For example, "04-11-09 nude & rub (BM).avi" indicated a video shot on April 11, showing a teen undressed and masturbating-BM meant blackmailed. If anyone doubted the violence he inflicted, they only had to look at one of Chansler's videos. In it, a nude girl, with tears streaming down her face, held up a sign as a plea to him. The note had one word: rape.

Meyer, with more than 20 years of working violent crimes under his belt, had to hold himself together. "Chansler was preying upon little girls my daughter's age," he says. "It was just heart-wrenching."
The 240 Invisible Victims
Chansler was charged and eventually pleaded guilty to nine counts of sexual exploitation of children. On November 10, 2014, Reynolds, along with Chonski and two other victims, attended the sentencing. "When he walked in," Reynolds says, "we all started bawling at the same time. He was old and balding with long black hair. We were stunned." The girls gave their statements, and a judge sentenced Chansler to 105 years in prison. (Currently serving his time in the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona, he declined to speak to Glamour.) "I felt empowered," says Reynolds. "I had tried so hard not to let him destroy my life. And now I could finally put him behind me."

Today, she knows her photos are still out there. "I do occasionally walk down the street and wonder if anyone has seen them," she says. "And I definitely have trust issues. I question everything and everyone." What she is certain of, though, is that she wants to use her experience to fight sextortion-and help find the remaining 240 girls Chansler exploited who have yet to be identified, if only to let them know their tormentor will never say, "Just one more."

Her long-term plan is to become a forensic psychologist, which means working extra hours at her hospital receptionist job to save money for college. Meanwhile, Meyer has taken her under his wing, signing her up to speak to law enforcement conferences whenever possible. "It's incredibly rare for someone who's been victimized as a child like she has to come forward," he says. "She's one brave young lady."

This May, as Reynolds took the podium at an annual training conference in the FBI's Seattle field office, she looked out over the 125 analysts and agents, and spoke from her heart. "I just told my story," she says. "Because I really do think that, instead of letting it ruin my life, my experience might prevent the next girl from becoming a victim."

She got a standing ovation.
Help Ashley Find the Missing Girls
Of the almost 350 teens whose images were found on Lucas Chansler's computer, only 107 have been identified. Ashley Reynolds and the FBI are looking for the rest. "These girls need to know that he's never coming back, and get help for the trauma he caused them," says Reynolds. Their stories, too, can shed valuable light for the FBI on this new type of crime.

If anyone ever threatens or asks you to send naked photos, do not reply in any way; report the incident to your local FBI office. And if you think you or someone you know may have been sextorted, go to fbi.gov/sextortion. "What happened to you may be disgusting," says Reynolds, "but it's not shameful. And finding closure will help you move on."

Liz Brody is Glamour' s news director.

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