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

Foolish or not, you can't close pandora's box.

And besides, it will have the -highly- beneficial side effect of making Win9x users aware of security, ... if people start using your open share to trade mp3's you're going to notice the bandwidth/diskspace usage in a way that you won't notice a subtler subversion.

'course, the company and it's product might or might not fair well over this, but even if they're shut down, their software will likely perpetuate, or software like it will.

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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

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