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Congress Breached via P2P Filesharing…AGAIN!

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Congress suffered another embarrassing P2P breach last week, after a confidential memo regarding an ethics investigation into the conduct of thirty House members was leaked, thanks to file sharing software installed by a junior staff member. This follows similar leaks that occurred earlier ...

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Government Tries to Thwart P2P Identity Theft

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Computerworld reports the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the Informed P2P User Act, a law that supposedly makes it safer to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software. Yawn. The bill now goes to the House for one more round of  approval. If passed, ...

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