House staffer accidentally leaks ethics document using home P2P software

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/10/house_ethics_committee_docu
men.php

 

According to a statement released by the US House of Representatives
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, often known as the Ethics
Committee, a document describing investigations of over 30 house members
and several aides was exposed on a public network because of "...the use
of peer-to-peer file sharing software on the personal computer of a
junior staffer, who is no longer employed by the committee, while
working from home."

 

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine

larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
<http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/> 

 

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