Wednesday, July 29, 2009Peer-To-Peer Networks Face Scrutiny
House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns on Wednesday was expected to blame the Bush administration for having a laissez-faire attitude that has allowed privacy and s...
In his opening remarks, Towns pointed to an analysis by security experts at Tiversa and said specific examples of recent LimeWire leaks "range from appalling to shocking."
• The Social Security numbers and family information for every master sergeant in the Army had been found on LimeWire. • The medical records of some 24,000 patients of a Texas hospital were inadvertently released and most of the files are still available on LimeWire. • FBI files, including surveillance photos of an alleged Mafia hit man, were leaked while he was on trial and before he was convicted. • A security breach involving the Secret Service resulted in the leak of a file on LimeWire containing a safe house location for the First Family.
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