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Who needs Napster when you have Windows? | |
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| Time: 03:53 EST/08:53 GMT | News Source: Salon.com | Posted By: Will2 | ||
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The courts may be well on their way to killing Napster, but neither the Recording Industry Association of America nor intellectual copyright advocates have any hope against the technology that drives it: peer-to-peer file sharing, the cooperative method of swapping files among computers. So far, file-sharing utilities such as Gnutella and Freenet have been mentioned in the news as alternatives to Napster, but little attention has been paid to the most obvious way to share files -- by exploiting a notorious security hole in the Windows operating system. The hole is a networking protocol called "NetBIOS," and if you don't know it's there -- or, say, if you've inadvertently instructed it to open your computer to the world (it happens) -- it's more like a gaping maw. | ||
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Case in point. The windows2000test.com site that was up when Win2K was in Beta. MS was opening ports left and right at the end of the trial and inviting hackers to crack the box and no one could do it. Not much of a gaping hole. If you want to see gaping holes, look at wuFTPd on Linux or NFS or Samba or... |
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