Do you trust your school district for your kid's safety on the web?
Do you trust that the network at your kid's school is anymore secure than your network at home or at work? I certainly don't. But that was the basis of a call to the Kim Komando this weekend.
If you haven't listened to Kim Komando, her show is targeted at the computer layperson looking for advice on everything from printing to security issues. She gives some good security advice to those masses who just don't have a clue on computers, and I actually learn something from time to time when I get a chance to listen to her (sorry if that statement sounds arrogant).
But yesterday I was about to start screaming into the radio when a caller and Kim were discussing MySpace. The caller was a 911 dispatcher in her town (actually, I think she was THE 911 dispatcher - small town), and she said she got a lot of calls from women who claimed they were being stalked by men who found their information on their MySpace or other social networking sites. She also said that if parents call in and say that their teenage daughter was having the same problem, she would advise them to take away their computer privileges at home and have them use the computers at school. Uhhhh, what??
I have a couple of problems with this train of thought:
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