July 25th, 2007
Congress: P2P Networks are a National Security Threat
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
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
We Say: 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.
John Corliss says:
When you’re dealing with demographics, there’s ALWAYS somebody who’s “too stupid to breath” as well as lame IT departments.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:52 am
Pyrial says:
Umm… So what does that make USB drives like the firefly thats so tiny I could swallow it and remove it from a federal building? Or the many laptops that the federal government has lost?
July 26th, 2007 at 4:54 am