Cyberbullying is defined as a minor’s use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to attack one or more other children verbally or physically, who are unable or unwilling to deescalate the engagement. Given that the vast majority of this abuse occurs in cyberspace, the factors, drives and motivations for cyberbullying are extremely complex. Provided below is a brief introduction to cyberbullying and the Information Age Forensics construct definition, iPredator.
Regarding this writer’s construct of iPredator, cyberbullying falls within the iPredator definition when the aggressor(s) is fully aware of his/her intent, but continues in his/her abusive pattern despite being fully aware that he/she are causing the target child significant distress. In order to classify a child as an iPredator, they must know their behaviors are causing anguish in a target child.
- On September 14, 2009, IPredator 'The Second Batch' became available for public consumption. On November 28, 2009, IPredator became publicly available and exited the beta stage. This was done to counteract FRA, which started listening to internet traffic over the Swedish borders on December 1.
- The iPredator, New York, New York. IPredator is a NYS Internet Safety Company, cybercriminal psychology educational website and dark side of cyberspace concept by Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D.
# VER: 0.25 remote nat.openvpn.ipredator.me 1194 remote nat.openvpn.ipredator.es 1194 resolv-retry infinite nobind auth-retry nointeract tls-client tls-auth inline ns-cert-type server remote-cert-tls server remote-cert-ku 0x00e0 keepalive 10 30 persist-key mssfix 1200 passtos verb 3 replay-window 512 60 mute-replay-warnings ifconfig-nowarn # Disable this if your system does not support it. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. IPREDator comes in response to the introduction of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) legislation which empowers copyright holders to get personal details of file-sharing users from ISP’s. The release of IPREDator was initially scheduled exactly on the same date when IPRED got into effect (1st of April 2009).
The actual percentage of cyberbullying that occurs without the aggressor’s knowledge of causing target child anguish would be very difficult to compile with high certainty. Many children do inadvertently insult and deprecate other children online without knowing they are doing so thinking they are being humorous and clever. All present estimates on a child’s modus operandi for bullying another child has been derived through interviews and self-report with no accurate way of confirming their honesty. Of those children who are not aware of their abusive actions, they are not included as iPredators or defined using Dark Psychology tenets.
CYBERBULLY TRIAD
Included in this writer’s two concepts of Dark Psychology and iPredator are those children that are fully aware of their abusive behaviors, but continue to target the victim. There are two sub-groups of children, that iPredator and Dark Psychology addresses as they meet each concept’s criteria. As part of this writer’s pediatric cyberbullying construct, Cyberbully Triad, these two groups are called Righteous Cyberbully & Narcissistic Cyberbully.
The first group of cyberbullies, Righteous Cyberbully, is aware of their actions, understands they are causing the target child distress, understand their actions are wrong, but continues to do so because they believe the target child deserves their assaults. The Righteous Cyberbully feels warranted in his/her actions for reasons including:
I. The target child offended or abused the aggressor in the past from bullying or an isolated aggressive event.
II. The target child offended or abused a peer or loved one close to the aggressor in the past from bullying or an isolated aggressive event.
III. The target child offended the aggressor’s belief system due to their race, religious affiliation, physical presentation, socio economic status, sexuality and any other aspects the aggressor deems offensive, immoral or unjust.
Of all types of cyberbullies, the most concerning and potentially dangerous segment are those children engaged in cyberbullying with full knowledge of their actions, understand the distress they are causing the target child and continue their assaults motivated by sheer malevolent intent. This segment in the Cyberbully Triad is called the Narcissistic Cyberbully. Unlike the group just described, motivations for this group, by blaming the target child or feeling justified based on the target child’s genetic and cultural make up, are not experienced.
These children may verbalize to their peers they are inflicting their wrath upon the victim for reasons described above, but in reality, they are not motivated by these reasons, but by sheer enjoyment of inflicting abuse upon others. Of the total population of cyberbullies, this segment of children are the smallest, but most dangerous to society. Children within this group are the future sociopaths, criminals and psychopaths, which victimize and inflict pain on others as adults, devoid of remorse.
Society will never mandate all children to be evaluated for antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder tendencies, nor is this writer encouraging mandatory assessments for all children. What this writer is pointing out is that cyberbullying is an immoral and destructive behavior that causes the target child serious distress and psychological wounds that can last the rest of their lives. Whether the aggressor is ignorant to their cyberbullying, feels justified by their distorted belief systems, or at the beginning stages of being a future narcissist or sociopath, society must treat all children as having the same potential both as aggressor and as victim.
It is for this reason of never knowing the impact cyberbullying will have upon the aggressor, victim and the community, that consistent and regular education cannot be encouraged enough. The vast majority of children who are cyberbullying and being cyberbullied rarely disclose this information to parents or teachers. As this writer, along with all citizens of the world thrive at the beginning of the Information Age, answers to the questions of the societal impact of cyberbullying will be addressed by future generations. Although briefly discussed above, the definitions of iPredator, iPredator Bridge, Cyberstealth and Dark Psychology are as follows:
IPREDATOR
iPredator: A person, group, or nation who, directly or indirectly, engages in exploitation, victimization, coercion, stalking, theft, or disparagement of others using Information and Communications Technology (ICT). iPredators are driven by deviant fantasies, desires for power and control, retribution, religious fanaticism, political reprisal, psychiatric illness, perceptual distortions, peer acceptance or personal and financial gain. iPredators can be any age or gender and are not bound by economic status, race, religion, or national heritage.
Ipredator Status
iPredator is a global term used to distinguish anyone who engages in criminal, coercive, deviant, or abusive behaviors using ICT. Central to the construct is the premise that Information Age criminals, deviants and the violently disturbed are psychopathological classifications new to humanity. Whether the offender is a cyberbully, cyberstalker, cyber harasser, cybercriminal, online sexual predator, cyber terrorist or engaged in internet defamation or nefarious cyber deception, they fall within the scope of iPredator. The three criteria used to define an iPredator include:
I. A self-awareness of causing harm to others, directly or indirectly, using ICT.
II. The use of ICT to obtain, tamper with, exchange and deliver harmful information.
III. A general understanding of Cyberstealth used to engage in criminal or deviant activities or to profile, identify, locate, stalk and engage a target.
If a child aggressor, cyberbully, meets these three criteria, they fit the iPredator profile. Further confirming the child’s iPredator status is if they are adept at engaging in Cyberstealth briefly defines below.
Unlike human predators prior to the Information Age, iPredators rely on the multitude of benefits offered by Information and Communications Technology (ICT). These assistances include exchange of information over long distances, rapidity of information exchanged and the seemingly infinite access to data available. Malevolent in intent, iPredators rely on their capacity to deceive others using ICT in the abstract and artificial electronic universe known as cyberspace. Therefore, as the internet naturally offers all ICT users anonymity, if they decide, iPredators actively design online profiles and diversionary tactics to remain undetected and untraceable.
Cyberstealth, a sub-tenet of iPredator, is a covert method by which iPredators attempt to establish and sustain complete anonymity while they engage in ICT activities planning their next assault, investigating innovative surveillance technologies or researching the social profiles of their next target. Concurrent with the concept of Cyberstealth is iPredator Victim Intuition (IVI). An iPredators IVI is their aptitude to sense a target’s ODDOR (Offline Distress Dictates Online Response), online & offline vulnerabilities, psychological weaknesses, technological limitations, increasing their success of a cyber-attack with minimal ramifications.
“Malevolent in intent, iPredators rely on their capacity to deceive others using information technology in the abstract and artificial electronic universe known as cyberspace. Therefore, as the internet naturally offers all ICT users anonymity, if they decide, iPredators actively design online profiles and diversionary tactics to remain undetected and untraceable.”Michael Nuccitelli Psy.D. C.F.C., iPredator Inc. (2013)
Pages:12
Related Posts
- The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
Posted on Dec 12, 2020
- Covid: Secondary school pupils in London, Kent and Essex hotspots urged to get tested
Posted on Dec 12, 2020
- DR. SHIVA: ON THE SUBJECT OF MASKS
Posted on Dec 12, 2020
- What Does the Latest Election News Tell Us?
Posted on Dec 12, 2020
Predator Generators
Share This
The Pirate Bay Team has announced on their blog that IPREDator, their VPN service, is finally running. Previously announced for 1st of April, the service was delayed due to stability problems. Learn about Pirate Bay VPN service.
The name of the service mocks the new Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) legislation which empowers copyright holders to get personal details of file-sharing users from ISP’s. The release of IPREDator is scheduled exactly on the same date when IPRED gets into effect.
IPREDator is a network service that makes people online more anonymous using a VPN. It will cost about 5 EUR a month. They say about their service: “the network is under our control. not theirs. the pirate bay likes and knows real optimism. and waffles.“
The service is still in beta
The service is available only for the first 3000 people on the beta-list. Gradually more people will be invited but right knows there are 180.000 (wow!) people in the queue. They estimate it will take about a month to make the service available for all of them. After that, the service will be public (i.e. everyone will be able to subscribe and use the service).
Why Pirate Bay VPN?
IPREDator comes in response to the introduction of Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) legislation which empowers copyright holders to get personal details of file-sharing users from ISP’s. The release of IPREDator was initially scheduled exactly on the same date when IPRED got into effect (1st of April 2009).
According to TorrentFreak, the IPREDATOR service would be more secure than other virtual private networks (VPN), by encrypting a user’s traffic stream. This way, it is theoretically invulnerable to interception by a local ISP or intermediate carriers.
“The weak link in any VPN/anonymity service is always their willingness (or otherwise) to hand over your customer data when pressured under the law. However, with IPREDATOR this should not be an issue since the service is promising to keep no logs of user activity whatsoever,” TorrentFreak said.
The Pirate Bay Trial: Defendants Found Guilty
On Friday, 17th of April, a court in Sweden found four members of the Pirate Bay guilty of breaking Swedish copyright laws and sentenced them to a year in prison and a $3.6 million fine. Learn about the Pirate Bay trial.
The four men – Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström -were found guilty of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing via the Piratebay.org Web site. Warg and Neij are the founders of The Pirate Bay. Sunde is a programmer and a spokesman there, and Lundström offered technical services to the site in 2005.
Predator Movie
The Pirate Bay and its lawyers will appeal the verdict, and the site will continue to function normally during the appeals procedures.
The legislation was based on the European Union’s Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED). During the first day, it was in force, Swedish internet traffic dropped by a third.
IPREDator Pros & Cons
We have compiled a list of pros and cons for the IPredator VPN service.
IPREDator Pros
- It works! IPREDator does what it says: provides total online anonymity and security. Suitable for torrents.
- The speed is great! Now that it seems to be stabilized, the service provides a fast online connection. As the servers are located in Sweden, that may vary, depending on your location.
- All ports are forwarded
- Easy to install
- The price is acceptable (60 euro/year) compared to other VPN services.
IPREDator Cons
- Provides only Swedish IP. This makes IPREDator no suitable to unblock Hulu, Pandora and other sites that are restricted to users outside the US. The same applies to BCC iPlayer.
- Basic site and service. The site (too) simple and not very nice looking. No fancy design.
- Limited use of iPhone due to its Swedish IP address(es)
IPREDator – Good or Bad?
Here, at How-to-hide-ip, there were some interesting, not favorable, comments regarding IPREDator. I’ll just cite Fausty from a comment on 7 VPN Services Launched in 2009:
Just to clarify, iPredator is NOT a new service. It’s just Relakks, with a new name stuck on top of it – as confirmed by Sunde after we caught them trying to pass it off as “new.” [..]
Additionally, Sunde has admitted that because the old Relakks network (which was abandoned, with customer funds disappearing, in 2008 by whoever owns it – they’ve never explained any of that) is built on PPTP proprietary VPN tools, that “IPREDator is very much a political statement more than anything else.” That’s right, this “privacy service” uses technology that’s so badly broken it can’t even promise to protect privacy! Sunde only made this admission after I demanded he justify how they could put forth the re-animated Relakks stuff as a viable “privacy service” despite the many flaws exposed in it.
What do you think of Ipredator released? Have you tried it? Is it a good service?Would you recommend to others?
Pirate Bay VPN (IPredator) alternatives
If you were not lucky to be on the beta list you may still use a VPN service.
There are plenty of good VPN providers that you can use. They offer excellent speed and connection reliability. Here are several such VPN services that I recommend at this time:
Another alternative is to subscribe to a VPN service that offers a free trial. You may find here a list.
Predator
>> IPREDator | The Pirate Bay Blog