Congress: P2P networks harm national security

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Anybody looked into this alleged P2P problem?  It should be easy enough to
do searches for documents files and see what pops up.  

 

Richard

 

http://news.com.com/Congress+P2P+networks+harm+national+security/2100-1029_3
-6198585.html?tag=nefd.lede

 

WASHINGTON--Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can
pose a "national security threat" because they enable federal employees to
share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers. 

At  <http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1424> a hearing on the topic,
Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without
offering details, that he is considering new laws aimed at addressing the
problem. He said he was troubled by the possibility that foreign
governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents
that reveal national secrets. 

Also at the hearing,  <http://www.limewire.com/about/team.php> Mark Gorton,
the chairman of Lime Wire, which makes the peer-to-peer software LimeWire,
was assailed for allegedly harming national security through offering his
product. 

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