May 4, 2005
P2P Software
Peer-to-Peer sharing evolved from the idea of trading music files with other computer users. Software was written to help 'automate' the search and download but the software seems to have certain security issues. If you are not careful, your entire hard disk becomes searchable. I ran into this website: See What You Share which explains the issue and gives examples of files it has found (with pertinent data redacted). Here is one example:
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