With all these legal cases brought for this sort of thing, maybe people should think more of security.
Trojans and Spyware shouldn't get onto computers. The fact that the do shouldn't be acceptable. Many people, in my opinion, don't take a serious enough view of computer security. Yes, things might get though, but then again, people may break into your house, or steal your car. Just because it is a computer shouldn't make it not important.
If people don't lock their house, open up all the doors and windows with valuables on display, it isn't surprising that you might come home and find yourself a little poorer, and someone might (unlikely, but it's just an example) have planted a dead body in your kitchen. Similarly, if someone opens up their computer on the Internet, things may well happen, and those things may well be incriminating for the owner. If people run a secure OS (Not windows), a secure browser (not IE), a good firewall, an up to date anti virus, and take as many security measures that are reasonable, then you don't get stuff like this. I fit does pop up, but your system should rapidly detect it and remove it.
My point: People should do more about computer security if they don't want bad things to happen.
Just my £0.02
Dave.
P.S. I also feel this is a terrible miscarriage of justice, even what he was charged with, but the above still stands.
Okay, maybe thats a bit of a generalization, but a couple of years ago now, when I was a wee little kiddie, we were in the IT room. (Yes there was only one). Anyway, the teacher was doing something on the Internet, which we were watching, then a pop-up appeared. (It was the type where it says: "What is your favorite colour?")
Teacher: Hmm... Well what's everyones favorite colour?
The Class: Blue! No, red! Yellow! (They weren't amazingly old at the time.... must have been about 10 - 11)
Me: Don't bother clicking on any of them, just close it, it'll just open load more pop-ups.
Needless to say, she clicked on one of the colours and had to spend the next few minutes trying to close all the windows which opened.
But anyway, my point is, how can she be held responsible when she may well not know how to deal with spyware, and indeed
also testified she had told at least four teachers and the assistant principal at the school about the problem, but received no help. Surely, someone smart with these new-fangled computer-thingamajigs should have sorted it out. But then again, you have to ask yourself whether she should have been using the web when these pop-ups kept appearing.
I'm still a school, in year 10 (14 - 15 year olds for those not in the UK), and frequently in our Religious Education and Physical Social Health Education lessons you can't hear for the rude, explicit, and sexually orientated jokes which fly around the classroom, and the teachers (being fun and entertaining) don't mind and join in. None of our class care. None of us jump out of the window. We don't find it offensive in anyway. People should give us kids a break. Too much cotton wool nowadays.... or maybe it's just you strange people in the USA....
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With all these legal cases brought for this sort of thing, maybe people should think more of security.
Trojans and Spyware shouldn't get onto computers. The fact that the do shouldn't be acceptable. Many people, in my opinion, don't take a serious enough view of computer security. Yes, things might get though, but then again, people may break into your house, or steal your car. Just because it is a computer shouldn't make it not important.
If people don't lock their house, open up all the doors and windows with valuables on display, it isn't surprising that you might come home and find yourself a little poorer, and someone might (unlikely, but it's just an example) have planted a dead body in your kitchen. Similarly, if someone opens up their computer on the Internet, things may well happen, and those things may well be incriminating for the owner. If people run a secure OS (Not windows), a secure browser (not IE), a good firewall, an up to date anti virus, and take as many security measures that are reasonable, then you don't get stuff like this. I fit does pop up, but your system should rapidly detect it and remove it.
My point: People should do more about computer security if they don't want bad things to happen.
Just my £0.02
Dave.
P.S. I also feel this is a terrible miscarriage of justice, even what he was charged with, but the above still stands.
Okay, maybe thats a bit of a generalization, but a couple of years ago now, when I was a wee little kiddie, we were in the IT room. (Yes there was only one). Anyway, the teacher was doing something on the Internet, which we were watching, then a pop-up appeared. (It was the type where it says: "What is your favorite colour?")
Teacher: Hmm... Well what's everyones favorite colour?
The Class: Blue! No, red! Yellow! (They weren't amazingly old at the time.... must have been about 10 - 11)
Me: Don't bother clicking on any of them, just close it, it'll just open load more pop-ups.
Needless to say, she clicked on one of the colours and had to spend the next few minutes trying to close all the windows which opened.
But anyway, my point is, how can she be held responsible when she may well not know how to deal with spyware, and indeed
also testified she had told at least four teachers and the assistant principal at the school about the problem, but received no help. Surely, someone smart with these new-fangled computer-thingamajigs should have sorted it out. But then again, you have to ask yourself whether she should have been using the web when these pop-ups kept appearing.I'm still a school, in year 10 (14 - 15 year olds for those not in the UK), and frequently in our Religious Education and Physical Social Health Education lessons you can't hear for the rude, explicit, and sexually orientated jokes which fly around the classroom, and the teachers (being fun and entertaining) don't mind and join in. None of our class care. None of us jump out of the window. We don't find it offensive in anyway. People should give us kids a break. Too much cotton wool nowadays.... or maybe it's just you strange people in the USA....
Peace Dude,
Dave