Why would anyone in their right mind use a password at all? Use a blob of random data as big as the data you want to encrypt as the key, send it separately, and destroy it after that one use.
My employer has the right to record me while I am on the job. The general public is a public servant's employer, and as such has the right to record them when they are on the job.
If the other situations are safe because other people are around, then the "at home on the computer" is even safer than any of the other situations because *you're* around (you are around, right? if not, why aren't you parenting your kid?)
Your "what if" is just silly:
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation in the hallway?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation in the classroom?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation in the teacher's office?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation on a class trip?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation if they happen to pass on the street?
If the conversation is inappropriate in one medium, then it is inappropriate in all of them. Besides, if something inappropriate happened to your child, wouldn't you want a record of it that you could take to the proper authorities?
Reducing the contact that teachers have with your children is not, as you seem to believe, a good thing. As a parent, I want my children's teachers as involved as possible. It's a lot easier to learn from someone that you have a good relationship with.
There is a *huge* difference between being a friend on Facebook and spending a weekend together or going shopping together.
That said, there are even cases where "spending the weekend together" is perfectly appropriate. For example, from 1st through 3rd grade, my teacher was also the parent of one of my friends. In 5th and 6th grade my teacher was the parent of another one of my friends. And finally, in 8th grade, my biology and physics teachers were parents of two more of my friends.
Should I have avoided going over to those friends' houses for the weekend because they were also, by definition, my teacher's houses?
How is it "ethically terrible" for teachers to friend their students? I'm "friends" (in the Facebook sense) with several of my former teachers. How are they (or I) behaving unethically?
I'm so sick of this already... it's one thing to disagree with the procedures, but it's entirely something else to accuse the TSA agents of being a gang of perverted, gay thugs who enjoy groping total strangers.
Oh, so sexually assaulting a stranger is OK, as long as you're not perverted or gay, and you don't enjoy it?
Umm, if the attack from (compromised) AT&T customer machines is causing trouble with AT&T's network, then they should cut off those customers until they clean up their machines. block the people actually causing the problems, not the target of the attack.
Problem solved.
"My vote would be something like RFID tags embedded in speed limit sign posts that the car would scan as it drove by"
Then, all I have to do is put a hacked RFID tag by the side of the road:
"You were exceeding the speed limit by 25 mph"
"But officer, my car's computer said that the speed limit was 90 mph"
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What happens if they get into an intimate conversation in the hallway?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation in the classroom?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation in the teacher's office?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation on a class trip?
What happens if they get into an intimate conversation if they happen to pass on the street?
If the conversation is inappropriate in one medium, then it is inappropriate in all of them. Besides, if something inappropriate happened to your child, wouldn't you want a record of it that you could take to the proper authorities?
Reducing the contact that teachers have with your children is not, as you seem to believe, a good thing. As a parent, I want my children's teachers as involved as possible. It's a lot easier to learn from someone that you have a good relationship with.
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That said, there are even cases where "spending the weekend together" is perfectly appropriate. For example, from 1st through 3rd grade, my teacher was also the parent of one of my friends. In 5th and 6th grade my teacher was the parent of another one of my friends. And finally, in 8th grade, my biology and physics teachers were parents of two more of my friends.
Should I have avoided going over to those friends' houses for the weekend because they were also, by definition, my teacher's houses?
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TSA agents aren't cops.
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Oh, so sexually assaulting a stranger is OK, as long as you're not perverted or gay, and you don't enjoy it?
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Bull. Contacting people, convincing them to commit a crime that they wouldn't have otherwise committed and then arresting them is called "entrapment".
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It was collected from unsecured wireless networks. These people were broadcasting this data in the clear.
This is no different than if I yelled something at the google street-view car as it went by, and the driver remembered what it was that I yelled.
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I'll be damned if any border agent is going to run their software on my hardware.
I'd rather wipe the drive and restore from backup when I got to where I was going.
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Nope. There is no need to "register" copyright. You have it implicitly, the moment you created the work (i.e. took the photo).
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Then, all I have to do is put a hacked RFID tag by the side of the road:
"You were exceeding the speed limit by 25 mph"
"But officer, my car's computer said that the speed limit was 90 mph"
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