Ihmhi - Slashdot User

Submission + - Filesonic removes ability to share files (filesonic.com)

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Ihmhi

on Sunday January 22, 2012 @08:39PM

Ihmhi writes: "In the wake of the Megaupload takedown, Filesonic has elected to take preventative measures against a similar fate. The front page and all files now carry the following message:

All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.

Whether or not this will actually deter the U.S. government from taking action remains to be seen."

Submission + - Government Spyware Puts Chinese Computers At Risk

Submitted by Ihmhi on Thursday June 11, 2009 @02:45AM

Ihmhi writes: China's mandatory "Green Dam Youth Escort" web filter software apparently has a series of severe flaws. In addition to not working on Linux or MacOS, traffic between the software and its servers is unencypted:

"We found a series of software flaws," explained Isaac Mao, a blogger and social entrepreneur in China, as well as a research fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

For example, he said, tests had shown that communications between the software and the servers at the company that developed the program were unencrypted.

Mr. Mao told BBC News that this could allow hackers to "steal people's private information" or "place malicious script" on computers in the network to "affect [a] large scale disaster."

For example, a hacker could use malicious code to take control of PCs using the software.

"Then you have every computer in China potentially as part of a botnet," Colin Maclay, also of Harvard, told BBC News.

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