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  Date / Time: 3/19/2008 3:42 AM UTC

  Investigative reporter Stephen Dean, on the CHW live radio...
  

  Long before computers were a household fixture, Dean started breaking new ground on Internet crimes in 1996, and his extensive digging has been sending cyber-criminals to prison since joining the KPRC Local 2 Investigates team in February 2001.
  
  In early 2004, he started exposing child predators by posing as a child online, a technique that is still used by other newsrooms and police agencies to this day.
  
  To read more of Stephen Dean's background and to get the full bio click here:  Click 2 Houston
  
  Dean's reporting changed the World Wide Web overnight. In 2005, his expose of chat rooms geared solely toward indecent acts with children prompted hundreds of chat rooms to be unplugged. Worldwide headlines from the New York Times, to the Washington Post, to the China Daily News credited his reports on KPRC Local 2 with this historic move.
  
  His work is featured in the National Museum of Television and Radio in New York and in a news writing textbook at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
  
  Your Neighbor's Secret Life Online: Protecting Families from Internet Conmen, Scammers and Predators  --  As computer technology becomes more powerful and pervasive, the Internet has emerged as an invaluable tool for information, research, and entertainment, but there is an unsavory, sometimes lethal side to the computer revolution as well.
  
  Investigative reporter Stephen Dean has been tracking — and helping prosecute — online predators since 1996. In this timely book, the Peabody Award-winning writer explains how to protect family and loved ones from criminals who can enter a home and drastically alter the lives of those in it with a few keystrokes. Dean uses insightful vignettes based on his personal experiences to expose the dangers waiting on the Internet for unsuspecting young people as well as their more mature but sometimes naïve elders.
  
  He provides proven tips for protecting and safeguarding against sexual predators, spammers, scammers, and thieves, as well as malicious software such as viruses, spyware, and adware.
  
  To find out more information Stephen Dean, here is the link to his webstie:  Internet Predators Book
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