Tries to reassure representatives concerned over the inadvertent file-sharing by users.
Limewire CEO Mark Gorton has responded to a recent inquiry by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee which said it had “become increasingly concerned about the significant risks posed to American citizens and entities from the accessibility of sensitive private and government information on P2P file-sharing networks.” It wants to know what’s being done to address it, and Gorton has responded in kind.
Limewire 5, the latest version released last December, “culminates a concerted effort to combat and eliminate inadvertent file sharing,” wrote Gorton.
The program, by default, does not share documents even if a user purposely attempts to do so, Gorton told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It even un-shares documents that a user may have shared using an earlier version of LimeWire.
With LimeWire 5, the latest version of the software, “LimeWire has ensured the complete lockdown of the safety and security of LimeWire users,” said Gorton.
Gorton notes the following upgrades made to the software:
- Does not share documents by default.
- Automatically un-shares documents a user may have shared using earlier version.
- If a user elects to share the contents of a folder or directory nothing added afterwards will be shared unless the user affirmatively elects to do so.
No word yet on how whether the program will ever add the capability of rebuking users for installing the program on a PC with sensitive data in the first PC.
This is good news for MPAA/RIAA in that is stops automaticity sharing files that have been downloaded and helps them with their lawsuits in that someone has to take an extra step to share files. It does little to help federal employees, no important files should be on a computer with internet acess, there are many other ways to work from home or offsite.
Why is it that Limewire needs to reform their software rather than the civil servants reform their security practices?
Right? Its pretty retarded to keep reading about federal employees who decide to install limewire and :make available” classified data in addition to Bruce Springsteen tracks.
Here is an idea, when the program start ask the user to do simple arithmetic, if they fail they are undoubtedly a politician and should be prevented from using the software
Nothing beats ares galaxy http://aresgalaxy.sourceforge.net/
and dc++.One of the most secured and encrypted p2p is filetopia http://www.filetopia.org/ .