Users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing services such as LimeWire are often very naive about how much someone else can access on their computer. If you are sharing your family PC where you do your taxes and other private and important financial work with a teen who might be getting music and video via P2P, please sit down and evaluate how it was set up. You need to make sure that nothing else can be accessed other than the target folder where your own music and video is stored. And please note, P2P can often be used to illegally share music and video and you don't want to be the next house where the RIAA knocks with a warrant.
The news item du jour? CNET reports the first conviction of ID theft via peer to peer. Please take a read!
Original posting date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | 12:30 PM |