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Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security
From: Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:20:15 -0700
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 22:14, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:01:52 -0000, Paul Ferguson said:In any event, I know the _Japanese_Government_ has had plenty of problems with p2p (Winny) and the inadvertent loss of sensitive information: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/search?q=winnyThe Japanese response was to ask the Japanese *population* to not use Winny, rather than actually fixing the security on government computers. We obviously didn't learn from their mistakes.
P2P has been villified enough in Japan that an elementary school teached committed suicide after sharing out students personal information recently. I think people have to think critially about severity of what really happens to accidentally leaked information before jumping to conclusions. cheers, --dr -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques Tokyo, Japan November 29/30 - 2007 http://pacsec.jp pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Congress: P2P networks harm national security Richard M. Smith (Jul 24)
- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Nick FitzGerald (Jul 24)
- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Sean Donelan (Jul 25)
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- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Paul Ferguson (Jul 24)
- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Dragos Ruiu (Jul 24)
- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 24)
- Re: Congress: P2P networks harm national security Paul Ferguson (Jul 24)