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I think we are doing a disservice if we restrict this question to only refer to the standard malware/technological attacks. The real space for risk to our parents goes beyond damage to the computer or identity theft. There's some seriously weird content on the internet -- and some seriously strange ways it can interact with our parents aging brains.

I had an "oh shit" moment when my mom described a website that added automated popups over a text editor field -- as she typed it would periodically throw up a pop up with encouraging commentary and editing advice "good idea, can you elaborate" etc -- and it took her a long time to realize that the intellectual/emotional support she was feeling wasn't actually coming from anywhere ... she also got severely addicted to the political campaigns and facebook -- and ended up with a news feed that absolutely barraged her with a constant stream of fake political news stories ... got her down from her 4-6 hours per day of internet usage but it was so fast -- really scary stuff.