In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Fri, 04 May 2007 22:26:54 +0100
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> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Friday 04 May 2007 18:18 \__
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>> http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3134187&page=1
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Often, just clicking on a Web site can initiate a
>> download of unwanted material, particularly if the
>> user has been lured to that site through a pop-up ad or
>> "blot."
>>
>> Beaulier says the danger of getting unintended material
>> "becomes more pronounced when computer users interact
>> with other online users through peer-to-peer programs,
>> or by downloading documents from newsgroups or chat
>> rooms." The reason is that files on these sources
>> appear only as a link with a name that may or may not
>> reveal its content. But the user has to download the
>> file before he can see what's in it.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> This can affect Linux distros, though there's a lot more control.
>> (Of course Microsoft's "security" is the wrong side of hopeless.)
>>
>> Welcome to the New World Order. Consider yourselves warned.
>
> Ask one teacher who was going to go to jail due to pornographic popups.
> Malware can affect a person's life significantly.
>
Ah yes; I do remember that news report, and an unfortuate
time was had by all. Well, I hope someone takes up his
case and the law is overturned (and later rewritten)
on appeal, to include some form of intent.
Of course one wonders what the kiddies think; until a
certain point our brains are very differently wired as
youngsters. There's a -- I believe -- Pepsi commercial,
showing an attractive model drinking a can with two boys --
about 8 to 10 years of age -- watching.
They were more interested in the soda can. Of course
the target of the ad probably wasn't the kids... :-)
There's also the nightmares and "monsters under the bed".
Granted, I'm not a neurologist, but I get the feeling that
such nightmares evidence because the brain, when we're
youngsters, is madly rewiring itself. (I've had my share.
I still remember some of them.)
To be sure, innocence is a treasure; there's no point
in instructing a, say, 5-year-old on the details of how
well the male or female genitalia function during certain
circumstances, such as in one's bedroom; it's beyond his
or her understanding. "Good touch" versus "bad touch"
is teachable (and suggested, to defend against abductions
and molestations -- a sad fact of life in our society,
along with kiddie porn).
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