Villifying p2p: House Panel Scrutinizes File-Sharing

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via SFGate.com (AP).

[snip]

A diagram of a Pentagon computer network that includes passwords to defense
contractors' systems is one of hundreds of classified documents
accidentally available online, a House panel was told Tuesday.

This and other sensitive information, including personal financial data, is
mistakenly leaked through popular file-sharing programs such as LimeWire,
KaZaA and Morpheus that individual, corporate and government users use to
share music, movie and other entertainment files, several experts said at a
hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

"The American people would be totally outraged if they were aware of what
is inadvertently shared ... by government agencies," said retired Gen.
Wesley Clark, who is on the advisory board of Tiversa Inc., a data security
company. Clark did not name the defense contractors whose computing
passwords were compromised.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the committee, said the hearing
was intended to scrutinize the threats file-sharing, or peer-to-peer,
technology poses to privacy and security, not to ban it.

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More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/24/financial/f1141
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- - ferg

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