Thursday 24 August 2006
Marcus: "Users of Microsoft Messenger will be able to report suspected sexual predators directly to the police at the click of a mouse." (via)
Marcus:
Some good discussion in the Slashdot comments about how much this concept is open to abuse.
Marcus:
Like, "This will be heavily abused by kids just messing with each other. Yeah, no one would ever click this button as a joke on their friend."
Marcus:
And my favourite, "Can't wait for the first messenger worm to start reporting everyone on your buddies list as sexual predators."
Marcus:
Oh, and heads up to the Guardian journo who wrote the piece - MSN Messenger is an instant messenging service, not an "e-mail service". Like, duh.
justin:
And the fact that the Messenger screenshot they have is from a Mac! and we all know Mac users are the biggest bunch of nonces there are.
