Snakedoctor
26.07.07, 14:56
New anti-P2P laws loom
p2pnet news | security:- With a Federal Trade Commission statement that p2p file sharing technology can be risky ringing loudly in the background, “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,” says CNET News.
The FTC assertion came during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing and committee chairman Henry Waxman (right) says he’s now considering, “new laws aimed at addressing the problem,” says the story.
“He said he was troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national secrets.”
At the same hearing, LimeWire boss Mark Gorton was singled out for, “allegedly harming national security through offering his product,” says CNET, going on:
Not at all coincidentally, StreamCast Networks, owners of Morpheus, one of the few survivors of the anti-file sharing, anti-P2P application pogrom launched by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, says it has a plan to, “further address the concerns” expressed during the hearing.
It says it’s launched a new national campaign which, “encourages and reminds users of file-sharing software to share responsibly”.
Waxman, meanwhile, “noted that he was not seeking to ban peer-to-peer networks this time around but rather to ‘achieve a balance that protects sensitive government, personal and corporate information and copyright laws’,” says CNET, adding:
“Mary Koelbel Engle, the associate director for advertising practices in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said her agency has found in its studies of peer-to-peer network use that risks to sensitive information, ’stem largely from how individuals use the technology rather than being inherent in the technology itself’.”
The Morpheus ‘Share Responsibly’ campaign, “aims to better inform users who might be carelessly and inadvertently sharing personal documents such as tax returns or that government or corporate employees might be haphazardly using file-sharing software for personal use, thus unwittingly making sensitive or even classified information available if they haphazardly designate what files and folders are available for sharing, despite many clear instructions and warnings about this that currently exists within Morpheus,” says StreamCast, adding:
“Additionally, users will be alerted with a message during the install process of the software that informs them with greater information on which folders and files are being shared while providing users with easy options to edit these folders.”
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12894
p2pnet news | security:- With a Federal Trade Commission statement that p2p file sharing technology can be risky ringing loudly in the background, “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,” says CNET News.
The FTC assertion came during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing and committee chairman Henry Waxman (right) says he’s now considering, “new laws aimed at addressing the problem,” says the story.
“He said he was troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national secrets.”
At the same hearing, LimeWire boss Mark Gorton was singled out for, “allegedly harming national security through offering his product,” says CNET, going on:
Not at all coincidentally, StreamCast Networks, owners of Morpheus, one of the few survivors of the anti-file sharing, anti-P2P application pogrom launched by Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, says it has a plan to, “further address the concerns” expressed during the hearing.
It says it’s launched a new national campaign which, “encourages and reminds users of file-sharing software to share responsibly”.
Waxman, meanwhile, “noted that he was not seeking to ban peer-to-peer networks this time around but rather to ‘achieve a balance that protects sensitive government, personal and corporate information and copyright laws’,” says CNET, adding:
“Mary Koelbel Engle, the associate director for advertising practices in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said her agency has found in its studies of peer-to-peer network use that risks to sensitive information, ’stem largely from how individuals use the technology rather than being inherent in the technology itself’.”
The Morpheus ‘Share Responsibly’ campaign, “aims to better inform users who might be carelessly and inadvertently sharing personal documents such as tax returns or that government or corporate employees might be haphazardly using file-sharing software for personal use, thus unwittingly making sensitive or even classified information available if they haphazardly designate what files and folders are available for sharing, despite many clear instructions and warnings about this that currently exists within Morpheus,” says StreamCast, adding:
“Additionally, users will be alerted with a message during the install process of the software that informs them with greater information on which folders and files are being shared while providing users with easy options to edit these folders.”
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12894