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Top-secret Obama safe house leaked on LimeWire

post #1 of 8
7/30/09 at 4:02am
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Ummm... woops?

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Top-secret Obama safe house leaked on LimeWire

The US is pondering a crackdown on peer-to-peer file sharing programs after details of a Secret Service safe-house location for President Barack Obama and his family were found being traded on LimeWire.

A senior US lawmaker has said that it may be time for the Government to regulate companies that provide online file-sharing services after several people managed to access confidential information.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Edolphus Towns said during a hearing on the safety of peer-to-peer software that he was astonished at privacy breaches involving LimeWire, operated by the Lime Group...

..."As far as I am concerned, the days of self-regulation should be over for the file-sharing industry," Mr Towns said. "In the last administration, the Federal Trade Commission took a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil approach to the file sharing software industry. I hope the new administration is revisiting that approach."

Mr Towns, a New York Democrat, said he planned to introduce legislation that would ban unsecure, open network, peer-to-peer software from all government and contractor computers and networks.

"For our sensitive Government information, the risk is simply too great to ignore," he said.


Well, if anything was going to get the US government to crack down on file sharing, I reckon this would
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post #2 of 8
7/30/09 at 4:04am
I am shocked and ready to support government intervention after hearing that LimeWire still exists.
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post #3 of 8
7/30/09 at 4:13am
As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with you and me, it only concerns gummint employees. Which seems like a good thing... if the official computers are that vulnerable, placing these restrictions is the absolute right move.
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post #4 of 8
7/30/09 at 4:23am
Fuck this shit. "One bad apple..." and all that.

On the flipside, Limewire is garbage, but it's occasionally nice to be able to get something you can't get elsewhere(as in ANYWHERE). I'm talking music here people(rare/live), don't shoot me. Anyone downloading movies/programs/games is asking for it. "It" being virus rape.

I love that Limewire is owned/operated by the "Lime Group".
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post #5 of 8
7/30/09 at 4:39am
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Originally Posted by James Kimbell View Post
I am shocked and ready to support government intervention after hearing that LimeWire still exists.
You won't believe how many malfunctioning PCs we get at work and still find this virus infested piece of shit program installed. Sadly, it not only exists but it's still quite prominent.
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post #6 of 8
7/30/09 at 9:43am
Yeah, I've heard it mentioned RECENTLY as something people still thought was a good idea. Seriously, people?

This girl was like, "I checked Limewire, I checked Kazaa... where am I supposed to get free music?!" Heh. I remained silent.
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post #7 of 8
7/30/09 at 9:48am
The problem here is not limewire and file sharing, again, government drones get it wrong and overreact.
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post #8 of 8
7/30/09 at 9:57am
A part of me wants to say that this is all an elaborate conspiracy within the government, a sort of digital Pearl Harbor, that'll give them an excuse to crack down on file sharing.

But then I remember that I'm not 15 and that most people are lazy and emotional, so it was probably just some dumbass employee with a grudge. Really, The Wire taught me everything I need to know about government works.
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