The Revealers

In the novel, The Revealers, the students of Parkland Middle felt connected through SchoolStream or as the students called it KidNet where they were able to chat or instant message. Most of you do this nightly through MSN Messenger. With KidNet and MSN nobody could break into or eavesdrop on your conversation without it being known. Not anymore. Today’s technology allows you to assume the identity of another person. Do you really know whom you are talking to in the cyber world?

It is 10:00 pm on a Wednesday night; you have finished your homework and you are chatting on MSN with three other friends. After 10 minutes two more friends ask to join the chat. By 10:30 pm five more people have joined and it is fun; however, there is a joke said about one of the people, rapidly followed by an insult. At first, no one knows how to respond, then seconds later a message pops up stating, “I didn’t say that! It isn’t me saying these things. Someone is using my name. What is going on here?”

What is the issue involved in this scenario? Why is this serious?

What would be a responsible way to handle this situation?

How could a situation like this be resolved? How would one of the three main characters from The Revealers deal with this situation?

The issue is that someone has hacked into the person's account and is using the person's account to talk to the other people and to say whatever that person wants. This is serious because they don't know who hacked in and why their saying all this stuff. They, also don't know who they hacked in and what to do next. To solve this situation you would need to figure out who is using the person's name and try to fix things like by getting someone to help you find out who is using that person's account. The characters in The Reavelers would probably send it to everyone so, that everyone would know about it and try to help and then they would try to find out who's doing this and they would make the person stop doing it. They would solve the problem in the end.