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U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the warning-shots-fired-across-bow dept.

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. This might be an appopriate time... by 3-State+Bit · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...to ask whether anyone has gotten FreeNet working over Mac OS X. I started the daemon, but localhost's port 8081 (or whatever it is) wouldn't respond.

    Has anyone had luck interfacing with the program after starting it?