FullMetal*Panic!

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/n ... /local/06/

A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued the popular social networking site Monday for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators.


30 mil!.. Oh please ...


If you at age 14 are stupid enough to give out personal information.
something isn't registering in the grey matter.

Where were the parents?

It's fudgie ludicrous to sue a site for your own stupidity.
And that includes the stupidity of the parents.

What??.. are we admins supposed to hold your hands every time you decide to chat with somebody it turns out it's a freakazoid?

Where is that something called "Common sense?"

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.

Said it before, and I'll keep saying it till I die...

Ignorance and Stupidity is not a defense
Repeat till sinks into the grey matter. If it has not, keep repeating it...





Regards

http://www1.myspace.com/misc/tipsForParents.html
Should myspace held responsible too for them being naive and sneaky?


By the above logic Myspace should sue PHP because they make it possible that the site is vulnerable.

php is a programming language, its how you use it that determines if your site is vunerable or not. The designer of the software is at fault for not creating a properly designed site.

MySpace should be held responsible for not making security and safe guards a top priority. Thats something all sites need to do for thier sake as well as thier users. I'm sure the admins didn't have fun digging out the tar files each time a section of myspace go obliterated by hackers.

Just as a note:

"We take extra precautions to protect our younger members and we are not able to do so if they do not identify themselves as such. MySpace will delete users whom we find to be younger than 14, or those misrepresenting their age."

The 14 yr old did in fact identify herself, Yet MySpace failed to provide the protection they claimed to have.

But I think those tips for parents has just been added, as well as more security which requires that an adult wanting to be added to a youths friends list to know the full name and/or email address of the youth. (Not sure how secure that is, but it should help).

People have to take into account that there is no internet resource out there that's safe from Anyone, doesn't matter who you are, hell, you could be a hacker yourself and be even more open to hacks than the innocent bystander you're attacking.

The child, even though she's young, should know better. I have a 14 yr old sister, and she knows much better than to involve herself in that kind of stupidity, it's not ignorance, it's the will to do what you're told not to, nomatter how stupid or bad it is in your head or in the head of those around you/trying to protect you.

Anyone can be involved in stupid moments, plain example, the guy that sued starbucks for being burned by the coffie he ordered fresh from the roaster... like wtf?

There is a such thing as a brain, and she should be using it to develop comon sense, rather than ways to be rebellious against those who advised against it, and im quite sure there had to be atleast someone that did.

~Regaurds

Wait, don't they have a policy that if you put you're under 18 or 16, something like that, on your account...the only people that can write you or see your profile and pics are those that are your friends, right? So then...that must have meant she willingly added this guy to her list...or she lied about her age on her account.

That was enacted recently because of the lawsuit.

Simply put, she was either a genius or an absolute idiot.

Genius: Staged the whole thing with the purpose of sueing them for one reason.... she wanted afew bucks.

Idiot: Lied and lied till she got herself stuck, then talked to her parents about it, prolly with afew more lies, and got them to sue MySpace.

This is why I avoid MySpace like a plague. (I say that metaphorically, but plagues and MySpace do have things in common )

...speaking of plagues, MySpace suffered alittle power outage that lasted
a couple hours... divine retribution or an insider job?

story

// insert 'comment yer code, stupid' quote here





Regards

But cute messages and chronic unreliability are a feature of the current wave of 'Web 2.0' websites

Sure, write crappy buggy code and when shit breaks, blame the runtime. >_<

LOOSERS

But cute messages and chronic unreliability are a feature of the current wave of 'Web 2.0' websites

Amen ta that,