File sharing's mysteries again stump Uncle Sam
The accidental disclosure of a House ethics investigation has kicked up quite a fuss on Capitol Hill as it turns out that more than 30 congressman and aides are under investigation. But after committee chairman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) disclosed the breach on the House floor late Thursday, her colleague, Rep. Jo Bonner (Ala.), who is the committee's ranking Republican, spoke next, telling fellow members that the breach was an isolated incident.
Not exactly.
In February, a company that monitors P2P networks said that it had found blueprints and avionics about the president's helicopter, Marine One, on a computer in Tehran. An investigation later found that a third-party defense contractor with access to that data was using a computer that also had P2P file-sharing software on its hard drive...
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You are just now beginning to wonder?
And they just set up a "World Class" CyberSecurity offensive and defensive center of Operations.
Now if they could just find somebody that knew what they were doing to operate it.
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- by slam5 November 2, 2009 2:39 PM PST
- And I lecture my customer's kid about P2P. Grown up does it too!
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