June 10, 2003
NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED FULL COMMITTEE HEARING
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary scheduled for Wednesday, June 11,
2003, at 2:00 p.m., on .The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal
and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing
Networks?. has been rescheduled for Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at 2:00 p.m.
in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Building.
By order of the Chairman
I wonder if anyone is going to mention that Microsoft Network Neighborhood
file sharing is a form of P2P file sharing.
IMHO:
No more, or less, than SMTP.
It is -that- simple.
(Of course, SMTP is how China got
Nuclear Secrets out of America 
)
FWIW: This is more tempestuous reactions at High Levels,
that would normally have been laughed off.....
Except P2P's are annoying the Recording Industry execs,
and they have $$$ on the line, so.....
$$$ has a way a bringing things to light that would
otherwise simply have been ignored....
But, for this to make it to the NS Risk Assessment groups just
demonstrates the licentious influence between the Current
Administration Policies and "Money Men".
After all, how many meetings are there going to
be assessing the risk SMTP has on National Security ?
Or, as you mentioned, MS file sharing...
And, remember, SMTP is -already- proven guilty of said Risk,
and a far more -probable- culprit in future compromises... !
Reality Check.
My .02c
.Richard.
My, what interesting times we live in,
and darn it, important people noticed me! :{
Sean Donelan wrote:
Uhh, this is a senate committee, not an administrative effort. And folks
like Berman (the RIAA vigilante bill) and Feinstein (the MPAA) are
Democrats. And you misused "licentious".
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954591.html shows that this kind of effort
has been going for a while.
Hmm where do you draw the line.. peer2peer file sharing, MS Networking, SMTP,
telephones, snail mail, visiting foreign countries, meeting people at all.. ?
Seems a bit silly to me to be having the conversation at all, its people who
willingly leak this information not the mechanism used thats at fault
Steve
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
Hmm where do you draw the line.. peer2peer file sharing, MS
Networking, SMTP, telephones, snail mail, visiting foreign countries,
meeting people at all.. ?
I am a very very poor student of history (my secondary school only offered a
strange variety that I never paid attention to) but I recently have come to
associate in my mind the current US (and UK) admisitrations to the distant
TV-based views of the 1950s in the US, when accusations 'anti-americanism'
or being a communist meant the administration waived your constitutional
rights for you - just now the accusations are either 'terrorism' or
'anti-globalism' (to grasp at a poor analogy).
The problem - to try to steer this bus back onto topic - is the sheer amount
of self-policing that the powers-that-want-to-be want us to do. Or it
becomes our fault.
Peter