IP: Napster alternative: other people's hard drives

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Kevin L. Poulsen" <klp () well com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Napster alternative: other people's hard drives
>
>
> Hi Dave --
>
> Hope things are good back in Philly.  Thought this might be of interest.
>
> Napster alternative: other people's hard drives
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/159
>
> With the future of music-swapping site Napster looking grim, on Friday a
> tiny Nashville-based startup began touting an even more controversial milieu
> for peer-to-peer file sharing: random, unprotected hard drives on the
> Internet.
>
> ShareSniffer Inc.'s newly-launched software, also called ShareSniffer,
> allows people to hunt for exposed Windows file systems with the ease of a
> Napster-user searching for a favorite track. "Right now... there are tens of
> thousands of computers worldwide that have their files deliberately shared
> with the Internet with no password required," reads the ShareSniffer web
> site. The site goes on to encourage netizens to rummage through strangers'
> music files, digital movies, Microsoft Word documents and spreadsheets. The
> company motto: "Because it's there."
>
> <snip>



For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/