Govt Wants Less Web Anonymity Surveillance and Privacy from Government5/2/2000; 11:41:49 PM Mar 1, 2000: "The U.S. government may need sweeping new powers to investigate and prosecute future denial-of-service attacks, top law enforcement officials said Tuesday." Clever... we all knew it was coming so they waited until it blew over to announce this. We'll see if the network news picks up on this..."But it was one of the younger members of the House -- Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee -- who appeared the most confused. She said that parents should be held legally responsible for what their teen-age children do 'on those Internet channels.'" I've never heard a better argument for not having children... you may find yourself responsible for their felonious actions, and spend time in prison. (If you haven't had teenaged children in a while, and haven't been one yourself, please rest assured that it is impossible to completely police a teenager. They are as clever as any other human who doesn't want to be caught, and, with the aid of a computer, can hide things right under your nose without all that much effort, no matter how good a parent you are.)Holding parents accountable for their children's actions is becoming increasingly out-of-date. Unfortunately, we hold parents accountable for good and sufficient reasons, and those reasons aren't disappearing, it's just that teenagers are becoming capable of committing larger and larger crimes that the parents can be completely unaware of. For instance, collecting illegal MP3s can give a fine or a jail term, and it's going to be very easy in 10 years to completely hide them from your parents (after mass storage devices are so big that the odd gigabytes eaten here or there arouses no suspicion). Can we hold parents accountable for this?