The Red Brick Times

Peer to Peer (P2P - see Peer to Peer at Wikipedia) networks are the next pillar of the Internet, per an article posted on the online 'Zine, Wired . One early example, Kazaa, is in the courts in Australia over users sharing copyrighted music. Another use for P2P networks is by the evil netbot programmers whose creeping code uses your personal computer as part of a decentralized network to store instructions and bits of itself so widely spread as to be nearly impossible to root out and delete. For example, a P2P network can be commanded to flood a net or web site with messages to crash it. The juciest P2P targets are computers on wide-band connections (DSL, Cable modems) that stay on 24/7 and are idle most of the time (like most home computers). As Russ says - keep the moat full of alligators and the drawbridge up.
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