On Sep 28, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Derek J. Balling wrote: > I have to agree. You're trying to solve a problem that can't be solved > with technology, it can only be solved with parenting. Because, at the > end of the day, the child in question can simply go to school and use > the school computer's browser to fire up some gmail account that you > don't know anything about.
Or worse, they'll use something like twitter and expose all sorts of private information that should never have been made public, and they won't even think about it at the time because they've become so anesthetized to "Big Brother" watching that they don't even know or care. > If we've learned anything from the "child internet protection" racket > -- and it is a racket -- over the years, it's this : the kids will > always figure out how to circumvent the technological limitation > you've placed on them, nine times out of ten, before you've even > finished implementing it. And the tighter you try to control them with regards to their private information flows, the more willing they will be to casually put private information into very public information flows. Or worse, they'll feel like they're getting a charge out of doing something "naughty", and they wind up being prosecuted for creating and distributing child pornography because they took video of themselves having sex and posted them to YouTube. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
