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U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic

mk2mk2 writes "News.com has an article on how they're preparing to shut down P2P sharing of copyrighted content: 'For months, the digital equivalent of a postal censor has been sorting through virtually all file-swapping traffic on the University of Wyoming's network, quietly noting every trade of an Eminem song or "Friends" episode.'" It's scary until one realizes that most P2P traffic isn't encrypted, like back when everyone still used telnet.

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  1. privacy policy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    too bad that the university's privacy policy is such bullshit that it allows the university to spy on the students. Fscking a$$holes.

  2. Re:wyoming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    US citizens are actually intelligent enough to use them?!

  3. Re:Eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You don't need to extract the key from the software, you fucknozzle. Read a fucking book about SSL, asshat.

  4. This System Sux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I for one wish to rid the planet of this system controlled by corporate interests, for the benifet of a few. FUCK THEM.

  5. U of Wyoming isn't even a real school by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I mean, its 13th grade. Who cares what they do?

    Its just plain stupid, won't work, and only somebody at a loser school would try it.