Donna Garner
Our Texas legislature has just passed HB 4291 that would put student laptops with digitized textbooks in our public schools. I have a question in light of the trouble hackers have caused with computers in the Defense Department. If the U. S. Defense Department cannot even protect its servers, how in the world do we in Texas expect to protect our public schools from similar hacker attacks? We certainly cannot spend the type of money they have at their disposal, nor do we have that type of well-trained technology personnel at our command.
Our legislature is living in a dream world if they think that the Texas education system can keep these laptops/digitized textbooks secure. Some of the best hackers have turned out to be computer-savvy teenagers who enjoy the challenge of breaking into their school's security systems. The more laptops, the more students trying to hack them.
It is frightening to think what kind of material could make it onto those laptops; and vulnerable children throughout our state could be intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically harmed for the rest of their lives by the simple click of a mouse. Hardcover textbooks carefully scrutinized by a well-planned public process do not present that kind of imminent danger. Please ask Governor Perry to veto HG 4294.
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