Re: Girl's disappearance baffles her parents

MacGirl wrote:
In article <ueOMf.437$F26.218@xxxxxxxx>, Cliff and Linda Griffith
<grifftex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I doubt it. If she hadn't wanted to be confirmed, she'd have bolted before
she went to all the classes. It's not like a quinceanera, for goodness
sakes! Confirmation is generally the choice of the teen, and it's rather
low-key. If it's anything questionable, I'm voting for her having "met"
somebody online and gone to meet him.

Linda

Yeah, same here. Online meeting gone wrong is my vote.

Was the computer in a common area or in her room? Just curious . . .
my DD (11) has a computer in her room, compete with internet access and
my hubby and I argue about it all the time (he agin, me fer). I've got
Mac "net nanny" software on there and I get e-mails letting me know
where she's been and what she's done (the software e-mails me). So far,
I've been really pleased with it.

The issue isn't really one of where your daughter may 'go', but what
may 'show up' on it's own - I had my son's computer fairly locked down,
Pop-up and adult content-wise, but it just took some mistyped
keystrokes during an image search for a school project and <gasp>
'Hello Guvnuh!'.
Like "law" in general, 'net 'child safety' software is only as good as
those who abide by teh rules; there are a surprising number of porn,
gambling, dating services, etc. who don't.
'Monitoring' software, like Child ID kits, is only useful 'after' the
fact - as it would be in the case cited in this thread - by the time
there's a real *need* to investigate, the damage has already been done.
I was watching a 'forensics' case over the weekend; a little girl had a
personal security device (alarm) which her parent's insisted she wear
when away from home - the small box had a lanyard that could be worn on
th wrist or tied to a belt-loop, etc. The girl left home one day for a
friend's house down the street, and never made. LE found the alam box,
minus the pin, and a few days later, the little girl - dead, wrapped in
a blanket in an alley. Forensics were able to ID human hair, fibres,
etc. on the blanket, which linked a neighbor's home, in which they
later found the girl's alarm box 'pin'. Ultimately, someone in that
house confessed to killing the girl (DP), with two others spending time
in jail for assisting in hiding the evidence.
Point? There is no substitute for your own personal involvement,
guidence and safety concerns re: your children's best interests.

btw - I'm siding w/ 'Hubby'; in that, even with monitoring saftware, an
11yo child can quite easily and accidentally encounter all sorts of
'uglyness' on the 'net. I know I'm glad I was there to immediatly hit
the [Off] button on my son's monitor! o-:=

Not to harass about Macs (I know they're not everyone's cup o' tea) but
FWIU, they offer the best in Net protection (from viruses too, LOL).

Only due to Mac's low volume of PC marketshare - why hack a small
number of Mac-based systems when the big fat Microsoft Kahuna is up for
grabs?
But apparently, 'someone' had a bit too much time on their hands, from;
http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060217-113332-9280r
2/17/06
["Some owners of Mac computers have held the belief that Mac OS X is
incapable of harboring computer viruses, but Leap-A will leave them
shell-shocked," Graham Cluley, a technology consultant for security
firm Sophos, said in a news release.]

Easiest to use, too! ( : And fun!

You stop that. I was Mac-only for 10yrs; they get just as corrupt as a
Win box, only harder to diagnose - Thank you, Steve Jobs. Grrr

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MacGirl

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