Rarely is there such an example of crass government stupidity caused by complete incompetence.
This morning, Vernon Coaker, Government minister in the Home Office is boasting on the media of this new government rule. They will insist that sex offenders give the government their email addresses. The government in turn will give these addresses to social web sites so that the sex offenders' use of these sites can be monitored.
Crikey! Those sex offenders must be really quaking in their shoes!
How computer illiterate is Vernon Coaker ? I would suggest - not very.
You only have to Google "free email" to find thousands of sites where you can set up thousands of email addresses for yourself all over the world. All you need is a ZIP code (I recommend looking up the ZIP codes of Starbucks in various US cities - for example, Starbucks in Cincinnatti has a zip code of 45219 in OH) and, sometimes, another email address (which can be another one set up with a false address). (About eight years ago I had a little "farm" of email addresses for making comments on a forum - which is how I am familiar with the routine.)
It is just stupid to boast that this measure would be anything other than completely useless.
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