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P2P Network Exposes Obama's Safehouse Location
Lucas123 writes "The location of the safe house used in times of emergency for the First Family was leaked on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, a fact revealed today to members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Along with the safe house location, the LimeWire networks also disclosed presidential motorcade routes, as well as sensitive but unclassified document that listed details on every nuclear facility in the country. Now lawmakers are considering a bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks."
Information wants to be free.
Especially high-value information.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Man, the jokes are going to start pouring in:
"Now that's government transparency"
"After exposing the location of the vice-presidential bunker earlier this year, Joe Biden also forgot to uninstall Limewire from his netbook"
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
I heard a "security focal" in a large helpdesk group once tell us that mp3 files were "illegal" and anyone caught with them would be charged and fired.
Going on means going far
Going far means returning
Perhaps the Internet can just ban the Government instead...
It would be a WIN - WIN Situation
Lets ban all means in which people communicate, or at least have the government moderate it. MUAHHAHAHAH
...surely you've got the cash to just buy the tunes.
some idiot (presumably a government-employed idiot, but that would be redundant)
As an idiot, I take offense at the notion that I am on the same level as a government employee!
My webcomic
My apologies. That was truly insensitive of me.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
This is just as bad as fork and knife manufacturers who fail to keep fat, dumb people from eating too much.
But they make their products pointy expressly to discourage people from using them!
The enemies of Democracy are