policing the net - spot the flaw

[expat]

Convicted paedophiles may be required to provide their email address to the police, who will give it to social networking sites like MySpace and require them to ban the offender.

Somehow I fell that those who thought up this idea don't know much about the internet.

[basshead]

This level of stupidity makes me

I say sex offenders shouldn't be allowed access to computers, or if they do then they have to access it through a sex offender's proxy, or install some software on their PC which captures their IP, all their activity and restricts access to sites etc.

[DimPrawn]

Or just cut their hands off.

[DiscoStu]

Or just cut their hands off.

balls

[FiveTimes]

Or just cut their hands off.

balls

Heads

Or all of the above

[Ruprect]

Or all of the above

Someone in Scotland's been undertaking this sort of policy already...

[KathyWoolfe]

Indeed... but where to start... decisions decisions...

Does it matter as long as the end result is the same?

[realityhack]

Convicted paedophiles may be required to provide their email address to the police, who will give it to social networking sites like MySpace and require them to ban the offender.

Heard this on the news this morning - Jackie Smith didn't even know enough to properly answer the presenter: "but how secure is this? I mean, email addresses are two-a-penny, it would take 5 min for someone with even the most basic knowledge to get past this". Her reply? "Well I'm not saying it's a perfect solution..." Too bloody right Jackie.

Who advises these muppets?

What a waste of time and taxpayers' money.

[DimPrawn]

Heard this on the news this morning - Jackie Smith didn't even know enough to properly answer the presenter: "but how secure is this? I mean, email addresses are two-a-penny, it would take 5 min for someone with even the most basic knowledge to get past this". Her reply? "Well I'm not saying it's a perfect solution..." Too bloody right Jackie.

Who advises these muppets?

"Consultants" on £2000 a day paid out of tax payers money who happen to work for big consultancy companies that also happen to donate large amounts of cash to the Labour Party. Go figure.

[milanbenes]

'Convicted paedophiles may be required to provide their email address to the police, who will give it to social networking sites like MySpace and require them to ban the offender.
'


lads, you're missing the point.

Email Addresses are two a penny today....

but reading between the lines and a bit of creative thought....

perhaps the plan in the future is to register email addresses to their owners like cars and houses, have a government department supplying email address only under licensed name spaces eg companies, hotmail, etc which to generate an email address require ID and proof of address etc

and voila, any email address not in a registered namespace and not carrying the registered digital signature will be captured by the ISP and not able to complete it's journey

tell me I am wrong

Milan.