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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... xonomyId=1

Details on presidential motorcades, safe house for First Family, leak
via P2P


Details about a U.S. Secret Service safe house for the First Family --
to be used in a national emergency -- were found to have leaked out on
a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, members of the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee were told this morning.
Also unearthed on LimeWire networks in recent days were presidential
motorcade routes and a sensitive but unclassified document listing
details on every nuclear facility in the country, Robert Boback, CEO
of Tiversa Inc. told committee members.

The disclosures prompted the chairman of the committee, Rep. Edolphus
Towns, (D-N.Y.), to call for a ban on the use of peer-to-peer (P2P)
software on all government and contractor computers and networks. "For
our sensitive government information, the risk is simply too great to
ignore," said Towns who plans to introduce a bill to enforce just such
a P2P ban...

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I believe it....Some of the stuff I've found on P2P is astonishing....Undercover police reports with identifying info...Warrant applications...Mil stuff up to and including TS classified...scads of tax returns...Medical records...confidential client lists for all manner of businesses...etc.

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So you just by searching on Limewire or one of the torrent sites. How does the shit get there?

Well, I can really only speak to Limewire for the large part of this, but in some of the older software builds, you specifically had to uncheck a box buried in the options that said "Share all files on computer" or some such prosaic wording. If you didn't find it and opt out, anything you had on your hard drive or externals was fair game.

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Bunnery definition for the under-fives

I'm amazed that no federal IT administrator in any of the agencies hasn't banned any "unauthorized applications."

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