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US House Passes P2P Ban On Federal Networks

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can't-legislate-against-stupid dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, the US House of Representatives passed a bill in an attempt to ban peer-to-peer file-sharing applications on federal computers and networks. Similar bills have been proposed before, apparently in response to confidential government documents being found on LimeWire. The text of the bill, however, provides a very broad definition of 'peer-to-peer file sharing software,' and may extend to more than they intend (SMB? LDAP?)."

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  1. But everything on the net is peer to peer! by Hurricane78 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are always at least two peers. And one of them, having the port open, is the server. Doesn’t matter if it has a GUI installed or is a laptop.

    So in essence they are banning all connections that have a source and a target ip adress at the same time.

    Wow. EPIC FAIL.

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