-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:24:33 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said: > >> In a bid to appease government critics, News ?> <http://online.wsj.com/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=nws> Corp.'s popular >> Web site MySpace.com is planning to offer free parental notification >> software -- a move that risks alienating its young users. >> >> Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers >> would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are >> using to represent themselves on MySpace. > >One has to wonder how they intend to verify that it is in fact an >authorized parent or legal guardian, especially if kids are doing MySpace >from places other than their own home computers. > Well, considering that MySpace cannot even determine which of their users are actually under 18 (which they promised to do on several occasions), I find it highly unlikely that this new press release indicates that anything has actually changed. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFrqoWq1pz9mNUZTMRAo/gAJ9r/uz04d5z4YnY4QM+c8NE5IywQACffG9I SVIKZWBcFcX3HrRDBof1eDA= =J7yJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
