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[ga] Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law

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  • Subject: [ga] Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
  • From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:58:34 -0700

All,

  Protect those Email addresses!

See:
As noted in Wired yesterday, [0]tragedy in chaos writes, "Senator and
Presidential-hopeful John McCain has managed to get a new bill signed
into law, in the hope of ridding online social networks of the sexual
predation of children. The 'Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual
Predators Act of 2008,' as it is called, calls for a database to be made

in which all registered
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/mccains-sex-off.html
sexual offenders must also register their e-mail addresses so that
MySpace, Facebook, etc. can run current and hopeful users through
it, and eliminate access to the offenders. Though a noble goal, this is
not very well thought out in methodology. They are asking known
criminals to be honest, and are expecting them not to utilize any of
the free and readily available e-mail services that exist so as to
circumvent the system. There is also a potential for the crafty
sex offender to possibly cause false positives by just registering an
address that does not belong to them, thereby drawing in innocent
bystanders."

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