Kudos!
You can’t hide on the net, folks.
With a little creativity, a friend or two in strategic positions, i.e., hosting companies, ISP’s, etc., and a bit of effort it is relatively easy to track people.
Anonymity only exists for those who know how to achieve it. The other 99.999% are completely exposed, sometimes literally.
I don’t say anything on the net that I wouldn’t say in public, and I make some ‘extreme’ statements. But that’s me and I’m not running for office or any popularity contest.
If you are in the public eye you cannot expect privacy ANYWHERE on the net.
I don’t want people on the right to make this stupid mistake and cost us an election, or worse. This kind of snooping only gets worse, it isn’t going to get better.
As a side note: Supervise your kids on the net, for Christ’s sake. I’m a computer consultant and parents think ‘Johnny’ is a ‘good boy’ and would never do ... Lemme tell ya, ‘Johnny’ AND ‘Jane’ would, and are, doing ... on the net. Keep family computers in the living room NOT in the kids’/teens’ bedrooms. It’s akin to giving them the keys to the car, and directions to Tijuana for the nightly ‘shows’.
Amen. I’ve been preaching that for years. The schools are fools when it comes to the internet/computers. It is undermining, not complimenting, education, at the present.
Much more structure and control is needed to actually make the internet/computers a constructive educational tool.
And, most parents have no clue what their kids are doing online or via text messaging (on cell phones).
I audit our kid’s cell phones nightly and record all their keystrokes via recording software.
I read the stuff their friends write on their pages, bulletin boards, etc. and GUARANTEE their parents have no clue what is going on.