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House members take on P2P security and privacy risks

article published on 22 April, 2009

Rep. Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking member of the committee, and Rep. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, sent a letter this week to government officials and to the head of Limewire, expressing their concerns about the potential risk to privacy and security caused by use of P2P networks. Mark Gorton, chairman ... [ read the full article ]

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Coyote42
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_ 		23. April 2009 @ 09:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Eeep... I'm guessing they haven't done shit, I mean this was a government request and since when did they ever hold to a deadline? Hope they got some fluff data they can distract with or else this could get ugly.
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defgod
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_ 		23. April 2009 @ 15:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The funniest thing about this is the fact it is all up to the users of the software. Not the content they are sharing. But they can't persecute every person who has shared a file online. They instead go after the proprietors of the software that makes it possible or of the websites. This all started when everything started being put in digital formats. Just to save space. Then everyone started panicking "oh god we have to find ways to protect our so called rights". Even though everything "analog" has been shared for thousands of years. It's just now in digital formats is more accessible by more people in more places. And more whining by more people in more places.
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plazma247
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_ 		24. April 2009 @ 10:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I know share local disk C.... more like dumb ass users got what they deserved.
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