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Indictment Highlights File-Sharing Risks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the careful-what-you-share dept.

Bomarc writes "Via the KOMO-TV website, an article from the Associated Press about how Gregory Thomas Kopiloff used Limewire, Soulseek and other peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to troll other computers for financial information, which he used to open credit cards for an online shopping spree, according to a four-count indictment unsealed in US District Court on Thursday. The news article isn't big on details, but it does outline the risks with peer-to-peer file-sharing programs."

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  1. Filesharing isn't a risk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful


    however poorly configured software is, wether its MSIE or OpenSSH or SMB if they are poorly configured you will get bitten

    anyway this smells like another "OMG p2p teh evill!!!" anti-p2p propaganda

  2. It outlines something... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But not the risk of file-sharing. It outlines the risk of not knowing what your doing. Same could be said about just about everything.