[cap-talk] Can webkeys solve the MySpace problem?

[Richard Uhtenwoldt]

Some of the Dean's objections can be overcome as I am sure he realizes.

For example, if instead of the adult giving the key to the child, the
adult  somehow "attaches" the key to an internet client (i.e. a home
computer) in much the same way that a browser cookie becomes attached
to a particular internet client, then grants the child access to (use
of) the internet client, then it become much harder for the dirty old
man to bribe the child into letting the dirty old man into the
"perimeter".

The salient question in my mind is, since there is great political and
"moral" will to solve the MySpace problem, how might the solution to
the problem be chosen so as to solve or contribute to the solution of
_other_ pressing social and political problems the solutions for which
there is less political and moral will.


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