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House Ethics Investigation Leaked via P2P
Filed in archive Government by jeff goldman on October 31, 2009
House Ethics Investigation Leaked via P2P
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Details of an investigation into possible conduct violations by several members of the U.S. House of Representatives have been leaked via P2P.


"Tiversa Inc., a Cranberry Township, Penn.-based company that offers a P2P network monitoring service said that since news of the leak broke earlier this week it has seen the file at multiple locations... Typically the names of those being scrutinized for ethics and other violations are not publicly disclosed by the Ethics Committee unless there is a formal investigation into potential rule violations," writes Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan.


"In this case, the breach occurred because a junior staffer saved the document on her home PC, which reportedly also had Gnutella file sharing software," writes CBS News' Charles Cooper. "One congressional source familiar with the inquiry says that she saved the document on her home PC but failed to realize the folder could be shared with other users on the P2P network."


More here from PC Magazine ... more here from The Register ... more here from p2pnet ... and more here from Techdirt.



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