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Comment Re:Yeah, but... (Score 1) 126

by sameb on Thursday March 05, 2009 @11:35PM (#27086999) Attached to: LimeWire Brings Darknets To All

LimeWire's FOSS too. It's also a popular program, and other viruses out there have been known to piggyback on it. LimeWire certainly doesn't download anything without the user's permission. If you're concerned, just build it from the source (available at limewire.org).

Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 1) 126

by sameb on Thursday March 05, 2009 @01:17PM (#27079141) Attached to: LimeWire Brings Darknets To All

The article didn't mention it, but LW5 doesn't let the user share or download programs unless he/she explicitly allows it (by changing some scary looking settings). So virus complaints with LimeWire should go way down.

Comment Re:Yeah, but... (Score 1) 126

by sameb on Thursday March 05, 2009 @01:08PM (#27079005) Attached to: LimeWire Brings Darknets To All

Uh, no. And it never did.

Comment Re:Frostwire (Score 1) 126

by sameb on Thursday March 05, 2009 @12:29PM (#27078329) Attached to: LimeWire Brings Darknets To All

Why? FrostWire _is_ LimeWire. They take LimeWire's open-source GPL code and repackage and rename it.

Comment Re:confidence and closed source software? (Score 1) 126

by sameb on Thursday March 05, 2009 @10:09AM (#27076623) Attached to: LimeWire Brings Darknets To All

Didja know LimeWire is open source, GPL'd?

See http://limewire.org/ .

Submission + - LimeWire Brings Darknets to All (limewire.com)

Submitted by on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @06:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: LimeWire's new version lets people create private darknets with contacts on any Jabber server (like GMail or LiveJournal). It's different than the recent p2p darknet announcement because it doesn't use onion routing. Sharing with a friend connects directly to that friend. Wired and CNET have some reviews of it. If you're worried about exposing personal information, LW5 doesn't share documents with the p2p network by default.

Submission + - White House ditches YouTube (cnet.com)

Submitted by on Monday March 02, 2009 @12:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: Responding to complaints by privacy activists, the White House has quietly abandoned YouTube as the provider of the embedded videos on the president's official home page. With the release of the latest weekly video address, the White House has shifted to a Flash-based video solution using Akamai's content delivery network. The White House's decision to move away from the Google-owned video-sharing site will likely be met with praise by privacy activists and could mark the beginning of a real backlash in response to Google's insatiable thirst for detailed data on the browsing habits of Web surfers. Ironically, the decision by the White House comes days after YouTube began to roll out its own new policies to better protect the privacy of visitors who view videos embedded into federal government Web sites. The move by YouTube may prove to be too little, too late.

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