“Cybertrap” is the term that I use to denote “an undesirable or unanticipated consequence arising out of the use or misuse of a digital device or electronic resource.”
In 2011, I published my first Cybertraps book, entitled Cybertraps for the Young. I chose that title as a nod to a book published in 1883 called Traps for the Young. It was written by Anthony Comstock, a stern moralist who served as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and as a Special Agent of the United States Postal Service. For more about his career and his profoundly futile attempts to stamp out indecency, lewdness, immorality, and obscenity in America, read the excellent book written by my wife, Dr. Amy Werbel: Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock (Columbia University Press, 2018).
The goal of this newsletter is to provide analysis and commentary on relevant news reports involving cybertraps and to offer in-depth legal, technical, social, and historical analysis of the most common and destructive cybertraps.
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A Guide to the Risks Arising from the Use and Misuse of Digital Devices
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