Schools in Alabama warn parents about Blue Whale 'suicide game' app Computerworld Darlene Storm May 10, 2017 It's not an urban legend, but a sick game spread over 50 days with the last task assigned by the 'master' to delete all proof and commit suicide. Vulnerable youths are the target of the Blue Whale Challenge. Vulnerable young people are the targets for Blue Whale. Once the app is downloaded onto a phone, it reportedly hacks the phone and harvests the user's information. In the Blue Whale Challenge, a group administrator - also referenced as a mentor or master – gives a young person a task to complete each day for 50 days. If a person balks at the daily task, then the personal information which was stolen is used as a form of blackmail as in do this or else your private information will be released or your family threatened. The task on the last day is to commit suicide. This is supposedly winning the game. The 21-year-old Russian guy who created the app claimed to be "cleansing society” of “biological waste.” Find answers to the following questions Should Blue Whale Challenge be banned? If yes, who must do this? Who is responsible for Blue Whale Challenge?
Schools in Alabama warn parents about Blue Whale 'suicide game' app
Computerworld
Darlene Storm
May 10, 2017
It's not an urban legend, but a sick game spread over 50 days with the last task assigned by the 'master' to delete all
proof and commit suicide. Vulnerable youths are the target of the Blue Whale Challenge.
Vulnerable young people are the targets for Blue Whale. Once the app is downloaded onto a phone, it reportedly hacks
the phone and harvests the user's information. In the Blue Whale Challenge, a group administrator - also referenced as
a mentor or master – gives a young person a task to complete each day for 50 days. If a person balks at the daily task,
then the personal information which was stolen is used as a form of blackmail as in do this or else your private
information will be released or your family threatened. The task on the last day is to commit suicide. This is supposedly
winning the game.
The 21-year-old Russian guy who created the app claimed to be "cleansing society” of “biological waste.”
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Find answers to the following questions
- Should Blue Whale Challenge be banned?
- If yes, who must do this?
- Who is responsible for Blue Whale Challenge?
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