I'm thinking about sueing them myself, and I'm being serious.
I( have closed no less than 16 myspace accounts that were opened using my EMail address, and guess what, I didn't open em.
I've sent numerous complaints to thier staff to fix thier damn code to get authorization before someone opens an account using an EMail address. But they want none of it, saying I shouldn't give out my email address.. But its the webmaster email addy of my website, which all websites have, and is ment to be easy to figure out. All they have to do is add an authorization email before the account is activated. Even this forum has that feature. But not MySpace.com? WTF?
I'm glad thier getting sued.
Even though I'd side with you, but I disagree on a couple of parts:
- 14 year olds can still be naive and they can also be sneaky. (KiLlEr remembers the crap he use to pull when he was 14, and got away with. If I tell my oparents they'd drop dead in an instant). Unfortunately you can't hover over thier shoulders 24/7, and you have to start letting them make thier own mistakes at some point, although 14 is still a bit too young in my mind. But the tweenager years is a time where nothing a parent does is right.
- myspace.com is utterly unsecure although people assume it is secure. This is part of the problem. I wagree with people should be more careful now adays, but so should programers when developing such sites. Which brings up the point of myspace.com is constantly having trouble with hackers.
My argument is that the makers of MySpace are the ones that lack common sense. In todays age, what programmer builds a site with practically 0 security?
They don't even code php properly. The software has more security holes than swiss cheese, even stuff that is spelled out in php guidlines (like passing in a page name to the script and calling RunPHPFile() without checking to make sure that the file is not a URL to a remote file.) is not followed.
The designer of the software is at fault for not creating a properly designed site.
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