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So how do you get Congress and law enforcement to take time and money away from fighting actual crime and terrorism, and instead putting it towards helping private interests make more money? Call it "national security" and voila! Spin a story of FUD to the already techno-incompetent old codgers, complete with fears of secret plots and unsecure classified documents, and tell them that at any time, naughty peer to peer networks might sneak into their hard drives and thieve all their important documents. Do away with those pesky things so the RIAA and MPAA can sleep better at night. Yeah, that's the ticket....
Congress: P2P networks harm national security
July 24, 2007, 3:09 PM PDT
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 laws aimed at addressing the problem. He said he was troubled by the possibility that foreign governments, terrorists or organized crime could gain access to documents that reveal national secrets.
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Also at the hearing, Mark Gorton, the chairman of Lime Wire, which makes the peer-to-peer software LimeWire, was assailed for allegedly harming national security through offering his product.