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Congress: P2P networks harm national security

Jul 26th, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: Security, Technology, p2p

CNET News.com
By Anne Broache
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
WASHINGTON–Politicians charged on Tuesday that peer-to-peer networks can pose a “national security threat” because they enable federal employees to share sensitive or classified documents accidentally from their computers.
At a hearing on the topic, Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said, without offering details, that he is considering new [...]



SopCast - build your own TV stations

Jul 5th, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: p2p


SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology, It is very efficient and easy to use. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources.
Source: SopCast
Tags: SopCast,, TV stations

how to install TVU [...]



P2P Networks: The dangers of Kazaa and other file sharing platforms explained.

Jun 26th, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: Music, p2p

by Charles Oakland
P2P Networks: The dangers of Kazaa and other file sharing platforms explained.
Using Kazaa and other peer-to-peer networking programs can be alluring to the uneducated user. The Music is within easy grasp, the clients are simple to use, and even the communication aspects are things that people find irresistible. But before you delve into [...]



File-sharing sites being subverted for web attacks

May 30th, 2007 | By CentroN | Category: Online Life, p2p

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, which let users trade movies, music and software online, are increasingly being used to trick PCs into attacking other machines, experts say.
Computer scientists have previously shown how P2P networks could, theoretically, be subverted so that several connected PCs gang up to attack a single machine, flooding it with enough traffic to [...]