Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. is the author of the dark side of cyberspace concept called iPredator (2010). iPredator is a cyberbullying, cyberstalking and cybercriminal minds concept that presents eight types of online assailant. With permission from Dr. Nuccitelli, pasted here is the definition.
iPredator Definition
iPredator: a person, group, or nation who, directlyor indirectly, engages in exploitation, victimization, coercion, stalking,theft, or disparagement of others using Information and CommunicationsTechnology (ICT). iPredators are driven by deviant fantasies, desires forpower, control, and retribution, religious fanaticism, political reprisal,psychiatric illness, perceptual distortions, peer acceptance, or personal andfinancial gain. iPredators can be any age or gender and are not bound byeconomic status, race, religion, or national heritage. Their sole requirementto get started in this dark dimension is an internet connection.
Central to the concept 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, cyberterrorist, internet troll, online child pornography consumer/distributor, or a person engaged in internet defamation or nefarious online deception, they fall within the scope of iPredator. The three criteria used to define an iPredator include:
A. A self-awareness of causing harm to others, directly or indirectly, using ICT. B. The usage of ICT to obtain, tamper with, exchange and deliver harmful information. C. A general understanding of cyberstealth used to engage in criminal or deviant activities or to profile, locate, stalk, and engage a target.
Since IPredator does not provide its own clients, setting up this VPN is a bit more complicated (Image credit: IPredator) Setup. IPredator has no clients of its own, which makes it a little more.
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- Sep 1, 2020 - iPredator defines 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.
- Michael Nuccitelli, Psy.D. Is a NYS licensed psychologist and author of the dark side of cyberspace concept called iPredator. IPredator is a NYS internet safety company, cyber-attack prevention and cyberpsychology website and online assailant concept.
Unlike human predators prior to the information age, iPredators rely on the multitude of benefits offered by ICT. The primary differentiators of this very modern kind of predation are also threefold: the unlimited distance over which data can be conveyed, the immediacy with which the data can be conveyed, and the unlimited scope of data that can be conveyed. The importance of these three vectors of capability cannot be overstated.
In pre-information age societies, by contrast, a predator’smalicious activity was essentially local, slow-moving, and technologicallyconstrained; the predator was limited to the area he could cover by car, to usean emblematic example, needed careful wooing or “casing” of his victim, and wasrestricted by the limitations of relatively crude technologies like thetelephone.
In the abstract and artificial electronic universe known ascyberspace, none of these restrictive qualifiers obtain. Furthermore, there isa fourth advantage that ICT offers iPredators: anonymity. On the internet it iseasy for iPredators to actively design online profiles and diversionary tacticsto remain undetected and untraceable.
At his educational internet safety website, he offers a ton of free information for parents, schools and all online users. After reading Dr. Nuccitelli’s concept; these are my conclusions.
IT is out there- and I am not talking about Instructional Technology- but the Internet- you know-the World Wide Web. And while it is chock filled with useful information, it is also a quagmire, a cesspool of people eager to take your money- and your virginity – if they could. Instead they want your Master Card, Visa or American Express (mine left home without me) and some predators want to lure young girls in, seduce them, proposition them and force them to use those cameras for nefarious purposes.
Dr. Michael Nuccitelli has written a very important, and cogent concept that parents and teachers and even academic institutions should read- because- well- millions of people are on the Internet and danger lurks everywhere. Parents need to monitor whatever their children are watching on the Internet- because it is loaded with pornography, and traps and seductions. Teachers need to understand that the Internet is in some instances a worthwhile reference source- but it can also be a trap- a place where sexploitation can occur and a place where one mistake can “go viral” and impact someone for the rest of their lives. Teachers and parents need to work together to make sure that children are not used, abused or exploited and not exposed to anything inappropriate.
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Dr. Nuccitelli has had extensive experience working with those who have been used, abused and exploited and have had major difficulties with scams, and various other traps on the Internet. He has written a cogent, comprehensive paper that will help parents, teachers and even university professors assist in the proper use of the Internet and guard against those malicious abusers and exploiters out there. We must all be safe out there on the Internet and children, adolescents and even adults must be cautioned, taught and instructed about appropriate behavior on the Internet. I recommend it most highly.
To download, save or print free PDF copies of Dr. Nuccitelli’s work; click the “Visit iPredator” button to be redirected to his internet safety website. Once on the page, click on the blue download button for the hyperlinked version or the black text only download button best for printing. Be sure to bookmark his site as he has an enormous amount of educational content.
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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.
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.
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