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| Author: | Mark [ Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | P2P Leak Compromises White House Security |
From another list. 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... <snip> |
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| Author: | Wilrobnson [ Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: P2P Leak Compromises White House Security |
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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| Author: | Mark [ Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: P2P Leak Compromises White House Security |
So you just by searching on Limewire or one of the torrent sites. How does the shit get there? |
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| Author: | Wilrobnson [ Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: P2P Leak Compromises White House Security |
Mark wrote: 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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| Author: | KE7JFF [ Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: P2P Leak Compromises White House Security |
I'm amazed that no federal IT administrator in any of the agencies hasn't banned any "unauthorized applications." |
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