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

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]

<i>"The person who has, through no knowledge of his own, left file sharing 'on' with no protection, that is the electronic equivalent of leaving your door unlocked," says Rasch.</I>

PLEASE. This (imho) is a rather poor argument. See if this type of argument gets you out of your next speeding ticket ("But officer, I didn't know it was 35. I didn't know radar detectors were illegal.") I may be somewhat desensitized as I'm a unix/lan admin, but if the machine you bought for your home use is so far over your head you can't properly secure it, TAKE IT BACK. Get a surfing terminal. Ditch that cable modem. If you are not competent enough to recognize all the facets of your setup, perhaps you really should either bone up on the technology you're using or NOT USE IT.

I am SO SICK of the masses crying foul about such issues when a few minutes of THEIR TIME could have prevented it in the first place.

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

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