New Report Exposes US Governments Ignorance

[GhostShip]

Folks using p2p are able to think for themselves and are being hailed as security risks, well that's my view of this report whats yours ?

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000239&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

The United States Patent and Trademark Office claims that file-sharing sites could be setting up children for copyright infringement lawsuits and compromising national security.

"A decade ago, the idea that copyright infringement could become a threat to national security would have seemed implausible," Patent and Trademark Director John Dudas said in a report released this week. "Now, it's a sad reality."

The report, which the patent office recently forwarded to the U.S. Department of Justice, states that peer-to-peer networks could manipulate sites so children violate copyright laws more frequently than adults. That could make children the target in most copyright lawsuits and, in turn, make those protecting their material appear antagonistic, according to the report.

File-sharing software also could be to blame for government workers who expose sensitive data and jeopardize national security after downloading free music on the job, the report states.

"There are documented incidents of P2P file sharing where Department of Defense sensitive documents have been found on non-U.S. computers with no protection against hostile intelligence," the Patent and Trademark Office explained in a statement.

When you allow those same children to be sued for copyright infringement for cash that is antagonistic and unnecessary, it seems the patent office is concerned how you think and what they can do to manipulate your views of unnecessary lawsuits against the old, the poor, children and students, that is the true threat to democracy and those trying to pretend global communication systems are a threat to any "national" security are likely up to no good themselves and should be viewed with suspicion

[KM]

"There are documented incidents of P2P file sharing where Department of Defense sensitive documents have been found on non-U.S. computers with no protection against hostile intelligence," the Patent and Trademark Office explained in a statement.

yes, except they weren't obtained via p2p networks, as they well know...

huge numbers of the US governments "sensitive material" is stored on windows computers, which are not under the control of any US government employee, they are under the control of IRC script kiddies that have got hold of the latest script kiddie bot and uploaded it to the wide open systems

they are more than aware of this - they even had the nerve to arrest someone for using their systems to store his files on, and completely ignored the fact that it was wide open in the first place and that's why the files were on it, they also ignored all the trojans on the various systems being used (reported to them by the person who they arrested)

what is surprising is that all of this is not only known to them, but also publicly known as well, so how they can dare to claim that it being possible for a p2p client to be re-configured to share sensitive files by a government employee is a security risk when they already have systems with full public access...

[SamSeeSam]

I don't think that they can't spare a few ten million dollers and upgrade or get good security for their system, who'd bother with P2P anyway?
Flash drives and portable hdd's are much more fast (and stealthy)
(A few million is measly compared to the 439 billion they have requested in 2007 heh )

Cheers