National Cyber Security Alliance Calls on States and School Districts to Teach
Internet Safety and Security in Schools
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| Today, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), with support from
| companies including CA, McAfee, Microsoft, and Symantec, as well as education
| organizations such as the Consortium of School Networking and, State
| Education Technology Directors Association called upon state leaders across
| the United States to work with their states' education leaders to ensure
| cyber security, safety and ethics lessons are integrated in every classroom.
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http://staysafeonline.org/news/teachinternetsafetyinschools.html
Read this and see how BECTA et al get manipulated.
Recent:
Free as in free milk - Microsoft's business practices in developing countries
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| We have seen how two different corporations use free samples of their
| products to create a dependence in the most vulnerable areas of the world.
| Even when the similarities between both marketing strategies are evident,
| Microsoft has earned the image of a company concerned with social causes,
| while Nestlé has been the objective of a successful boycott campaign that
| forced it to change its marketing strategy.
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| This double standard is maintained by the lack of public awareness on the
| implications of proprietary software. To make these implications known, and
| to promote the use of free software in education, is a step towards a world
| where access to knowledge is not restricted to those who can afford it.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/free_as_in_free_milk
Related:
Adobe targets school kids to get them hooked on software
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| Adobe is where the 'apps' are manufactured. These apps that have the
| power to make images appear before our children's eyes. "There were
| all these, like, stars, and they were rotating. It really captured
| my attention," said Nigel, 14, hardly more than a child, but with
| the vacant expression of a man who has spent hours looking at a
| screen. Nigel has now discovered he needs glasses.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38254
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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