At last! the Internet is SAFE for kids! [?]

here's another article citing the same study by NSBA. Finally someone is actually doing something quantitative instead of just knee-jerk: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070808-study-fears-over-kids-onli...

i agree.

bret may disagree, tho, stating "only the paranoid survive"

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Perhaps it's safe for kids, but not parents! Here's an article about a 15yr old girl who got on an airplane and left Alaska to go meet her Internet boyfriend: http://www.adn.com/front/story/9236829p-9152462c.html

Once you get the "think of the children" stuff out of the way - from a security standpoint I agree, it doesn't make any sense to allow a minor to get on the plane with just a boarding pass or parental consent, but like the article says, what sort of identification does a minor have? Unknown. And how would you verify that someone is indeed the parent? Issues like this will cause us all to have mandatory ID's or biometric scans from the day we are born.