Congress: P2P Networks are a National Security Threat

By technologyexpert

My first thought was … whaa? My second was whaa?

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. Source: News.com

So yeah, you can see how it could happen. Someone installs a P2P file-sharing program on their computer, and shares directories that have sensitive information on it. Sure, I can see it … if they are ridiculously stupid users … or if your IT department is too lame to block the traffic.

Shades of the “tubes” debacle.

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