Neil Schneider wrote:
She was convicted last month of exposing seventh-grade students to
pornography on her classroom computer. She contended the images were
inadvertently thrust onto the screen by pornographers' unseen spyware
and adware programs.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2872230
SecurityFocus has a much longer discussion:
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/434/1
This conviction occurred in spite of the fact that the school let their
filter software subscription expire. In my opinion, that's the real
reason this case went as far as it did. If the school doesn't pin this
on the teacher, *they* are about to get sued for lots of money.
Also, one of the interesting points about the securityfocus article is
that it talks about the fact that you *must* have certain filtering
software in place to comply with Federal guidelines. *That* I didn't know.
Those kind of guidelines basically wipe out any hope of usefully using
computers in schools. We should just remove them and be done with it.
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