Napster alternative: other people's hard drives

Napster alternative: other people's hard drives
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2001-02-26

ShareSniffer turns Windows hacking into a P2P play.

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But what about bandwidth? 2001-02-26
Anonymous (7 replies)

But what about bandwidth? 2001-02-26
jef

encouragement 2001-02-26
thissurfer

But what about bandwidth? 2001-02-26
Havokmon

But what about bandwidth? 2001-02-26
patrick

But what about bandwidth? 2001-02-26
Parity

But what about bandwidth? 2001-02-26
smash (at) floodbox (dot) com [email concealed] (1 replies)

But what about bandwidth? 2001-03-01
anon

Honeypot, anyone? 2001-02-28
luno

This is HILARIOUS 2001-02-26
anonymous

Win2K 2001-02-26
Anonymous

Windows 2000 Pro comes with the default shares on each drive. So without knowing it, anyone installing 2000 without knowing this, is leaving their machine open to the world. I admit, anyone who doesn't check things like that deserves to have their machine nailed, but people who turn on sharing intentionally know and understand the potential complications. Complain if they want, but they brought it upon themselves. Any time you share files, someone else can get at them. Period.

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The Best Security is making the problem widely known. 2001-02-26
Sap

Plain immoral/illegal, Socially Irresponsible. 2001-02-26
Anon

Open Doors does not mean Open House... 2001-02-26
deggi3

Bad, Badder, Baddest! 2001-02-26
Salvatore

NETBIOS passwords aren't secure.... 2001-02-26
Brad

An Internet where *everybody* is a script kiddie 2001-02-27
A.Lizard alizard (at) ecis (dot) com [email concealed]

What about Security 2001-02-27
rbooke

Excellent Blackmail tool 2001-02-28
Anonymous

User Ignorance (or "I Didn't Mean To Do It") 2001-02-28
raptorfan (at) earthlink (dot) net [email concealed]

How to make ShareSniffer unusable/undesirable 2001-03-01
Johan Lindqvist <lindq (at) bigfoot (dot) com [email concealed]>

Protection..... 2001-03-01
NaT