Georgia Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Passwords

The law is aimed at ensuring that sex offenders do not use the Internet to prey upon children or in other inappropriate ways. Of course, there are privacy and security concerns. Critics say that the law violates the privacy of sex offenders who have served their time in prison, and that it will put an untenable burden on law enforcement official to track the online activities of thousands of registrants.
The law may also leave offenders more susceptible to identity theft and potentially disastrous security breaches. Rule number one of online security is never share your password with anyone. Anyone.
Even if this law isn't struck down as violation of privacy (as a similar statute in Utah was), we suspect the first registrant who has their online banking information stolen because of lax security will bring a swift end to this policy. [From: Fox News]





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Subscribe to commentsberniebJan 2nd 2009 6:15PM
What would be wrong with work farms for pediphiles only? A place to work,sleep and prey on each other. But because of laws put in place by lawyers as to guarantee their future income, they're allowed to roam the streets (for a price) . Same for the dirty movie industry, it's just good for business.
CarneyJan 7th 2009 3:22PM
Words like "pedophile" and "child" used on teenagers, as I've seen in this discussion, blur important distinctions.
Anyone finding a pre-pubescent child attractive is indeed pathological, and should be harshly punished for any effort to engage in contact.
However, teenagers and young adults, while lacking in judgement and maturity, are not "children", and those who find them attractive or engage in relations with them are not "sick", although they are doing something wrong.
Ironically by confusing this distinction we are helping pedophiles and other wrongdoers dismiss social mores and laws restricting their conduct as mere hysterical prudishness.
A better approach than the simplistic under-18s are "children", 18s and up are "adults" binary system is one proposed here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2174841/
wiliamJan 15th 2009 8:49PM
Not all sex offenders are child molesters. There is a wide range of offenses that are included in sex offender registry. Many thousands of offenders are convicted of misdemeanors that are on the list. It's the governments way of getting as many samples of ' dna' in their database as they can. If they had their way, everyone's " dna" would be kept.
umokJan 18th 2009 7:52AM
Well. I am a registered sex offender.
At the tail end of a new years eve party, my now ex-girlfriend (26 yo at the time) got me highly intoxicated and decided to strip in front of me and a male minor ( 15 or 16, never really found out).
She some how convinced me to allow her to give him oral sex.
It turns out, she was sleeping with him behind my back.
I was pretty much forced to plea guilty and take a plea or face 360 months in prison over the whole thing.
I never touched him, I didn't do anything with him ( I'm not gay)
I just finished 30 months of probation. Which my PO tried to violate me. The whole thing cost me over 10k, and at 22 years old (now 26), it was hard to come up with that.
I cannot hold a job because of this (currently unemployed again), I'm forced to live in the slums because I'm not a felon and can''t rent just any apartment.
Now I cannot go on my space to interact with my family ( i live alone in the state i live in, cant move while on felony probation)
I had several forensic psychologists by the state and private sector evaluate me many times and each report says I'm not a sex offender and it was an isolated incident and I wouldn't do it again.
My attorney tells me the laws are so new, that anyone caught up in them just has to wait it out and see what happens in the future.
I'm currently broke, about to loose my apartment, car. I can't get a job - no one will hire me.
They keep passing new laws that make it almost impossible to live.
What am I supposed to do? I can't live with my parents - they can't afford my burden.
I now understand why criminals commit crimes over and over again - they have no choice. They mess up once - and they cannot live in society whether they go straight or not.
I didnt molest a child. I didnt rape anyone. The victim? Ha. The 15-16 yo got a fantasy every 15-16 yo wants. An older woman screwing his brains out.
Who is the true victim in this case? The kid gets to go on bragging to his buddies he nailed my x-gf, and my life is ruined.
Now, a rapist, or a child molester should rot away. But, should I be classified along with them and automatically assumed I raped or molested someone? Should I not be able to hold a job? Or live somewhere I don't have to fear for my life?
Wake up people. All you soccer moms out there screaming bloody hell is make us registered sex offenders that do not really deserve it's life impossible to live.
If you want to protect your children, stop relying on the government to do it for you, be a partent, educate your children.