US House Passes P2P Ban On Federal Networks

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, the US House of Representatives passed a bill in an attempt to ban peer-to-peer file-sharing applications on federal computers and networks. Similar bills have been proposed before, apparently in response to confidential government documents being found on LimeWire. The text of the bill, however, provides a very broad definition of 'peer-to-peer file sharing software,' and may extend to more than they intend (SMB? LDAP?)."

How will the government botnets run!?!?

[Orga]

I think this will greatly hinder our offensive capabilities in a cyberwar

Re:Whitelist, not blacklist!

[cbev]

Ever try to write an OS using Ada? You'd spend 14 billion dollars and you might get a functional word processor. Copy and paste would be an extra 2 billion, and double the development time of the project.

Re:Whitelist, not blacklist!

[Sir_Lewk]

Clearly there are only two options:

• Use a Microsoft OS.
• Write your own in Ada.

Re:Whitelist, not blacklist!

[cnkurzke]

Even your local proxy server is now being admined from elsewhere.

Likely the system administration has been outsourced, and is now run from a CSC guy in Bangalore.

Re:Whitelist, not blacklist!

[stonewallred]

I went to your link, then went to the FAQ, which sent me back to the patch notes, with a link available for the FAQs, which took me back to the patch notes. If that is the best the federal government can do, I am brushing up on my chinese, russian and arabic, because we are all fucked.