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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.

Taken from here.

It gives someone outside the DoD network a connection to a DoD computer, so yes they can accidentally share somewhat classified documents. Although they shouldn't be on those computers in the first place... and anyone caught would be put in jail for a long long time..

so whats funny, i missed it.

andyman wrote:It gives someone outside the DoD network a connection to a DoD computer, so yes they can accidentally share somewhat classified documents. Although they shouldn't be on those computers in the first place... and anyone caught would be put in jail for a long long time..

so whats funny, i missed it.

the apostrophe?

Congress is filled with such ill-informed twats that they'll pass any law with the words: security, threat, terrorism, religion, children, weapons of mass distruction, video games, violence, nudity, war, internet, classified information, and here's-a-briefcase-full-of-money.


If they were worried about security, they should ban paper as well. Since someone can take a piece of paper with classified information on it, fold it into a paper airplane and throw it out the window.

Err, isn't Andy right? Fail to see the stupidity in this one...

Sounds like an internal issue, not one that would require legislation across the board to buttfuck everyone else's free and open access to p2p networks.

oh... of course.

*goes for coffee*

Sounds like the DoD has a shitty security policy. They shouldn't allow people to install applications in the first place...

they should all be running citrix clients with information stored on a central server with no rights or storage locally.. IMO..


Shit companies have better security then the f'ing government

hilarious.

I have 14 facebook friends from the DoD network.

because facebook is a p2p client

you heard it here first

bitWISE wrote:Sounds like the DoD has a shitty security policy. They shouldn't allow people to install applications in the first place...

um, yes, exactly. what the jiminy fuck would someone at the pentagon be doing with eMule on their machine anyway

also, this line of *cough* reasoning doesn't really apply to torrents. i don't think you can accidentally create a torrent, though you can accidentally (i.e. by being an olympic retard) share your entire C drive via eDonkey

also, this strikes me as just another thinly-veiled attack of file-sharing per se

jesus, how do you americans put up with these idiots? they should just walk around with corporate logos on their suits - "this senator was brought to you by raytheon, makers of fine ways to kill america's enemies since 1922" - at least it would be honest

seremtan wrote:also, this strikes me as just another thinly-veiled attack of file-sharing per se

jesus, how do you americans put up with these idiots? they should just walk around with corporate logos on their suits - "this senator was brought to you by raytheon, makers of fine ways to kill america's enemies since 1922" - at least it would be honest

WOOT!

bitWISE wrote:Sounds like the DoD has a shitty security policy. They shouldn't allow people to install applications in the first place...

They don't, you have to be an admin to have rights to install programs that have anything to do with the registry usually. It's no different than any other corporation policy.

seremtan wrote: jesus, how do you americans put up with these idiots?

it's not easy.