Peridyd's Progress

I've written earlier about the dangers of technically-illiterate legislation, but this one's from the enforcement side, and it's just so painful to read.

Indulge me a moment while I break it down:

• substitute teacher shows up for class,


• while using the classroom computer, porn pop ups appear,


• substitute teacher tries to stop the popups, but to no avail. Some of the students apparently see some porn


• parents get wind of the fact that their children have viewed human sexual acts, and


• substitute teacher is tried and convicted (?!!!) of putting the children at risk.

The school computer had an inadequate operating system, out of date ant-virus, and an inadequate firewall; the defense was not allowed to provide expert technical testimony which would have unequivocally cleared the teacher of any wrong doing.

A clueless and technically-illiterate judicial system is potentially sending an innocent person to jail.

Sentencing is March 2nd.