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Discussion on: How do you talk about digital security with your friends and family?

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Miriam Tocino • Edited

Nice question, Ben!

It's an important topic, especially when you discuss it with your children. I thought for a long time the way in which I'd like to introduce online safety to my son (and I wrote a book about it in the Zerus & Ona series).

He is 3 now, and he already knows that we, humans, aren't the only ones who can get sick, but computers can too! And he was explaining to me that there are bots, trojans, and worms, and how they make your computer go crazy!

I like to think that telling stories about online safety as part of children's upbringing, when they're still little, will help them become more conscious about it when they grow older.

P.S. For the ones who are curious, I wrote a longer blog post about it here:
zerusandona.com/blogs/news/online-...