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iPod WiFi: Won't Someone Think of the Children?
(2008-01-27)
Aah, the mainstream media, always there to suggest new things you need to be terrified of. The Chicago Tribune offers as a new object of alarm the iPod Touch, which of course includes limited WiFi functionality. Which could be used by children! To e-mail bad photos or log on to Facebook! Or could be swiped by a bad man to steal MySpace log-ons for 12-year-old girls!
After warning "It's not their older brother's music player anymore," the authors suggest that Apple add a WiFi lock to the iPod for vigilant parents to activate.
Which sounds like mollycoddling to me. Ban the darn things altogether! I grew up with nothing but a hand-me-down Garrard turntable and a Radio Shack clock radio for music, and it didn't do me a bit of harm.
Posted by David Becker
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