Posts with keyword: p2p

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Building Decentralized Applications with Pico Networks

Fri Feb 26 10:06:00 2021

Picos make building decentralized applications easy. This blog post shows a heterarchical sensor network can built using picos.
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Do You Support P2P File Sharing Inside the Enterprise

Mon Nov 17 16:55:00 2008

The topic of P2P file sharing inside the enterprise recently came up in a conversation I was having. I count myself as pretty enlightened on these kinds of things, but beyond getting large Linux distros quick or sharing disk images, virtual machines, and virtual appliances, I had a tough time thinking of legitimate reasons an enterprise might support it or even allow it. The other side of course is that there are bandwidth issues, both network and people. If you're just supporting people watching the latest episode of The Office in the office, then you've not accomplished much. I
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Viruses, P2P, and Privacy

Mon Feb 13 18:19:00 2006

The Japan Time is reporting that the names of 10,000 Japanese convicts have been leaked from an employee's personal computer that was infected by a virus from the P2P program Winny. The information was initially stored on a CD by a staff member at Kagoshima Prison and handed to a staff member of Kyoto Prison in December. That employee left the CD in a personal computer. The data was leaked after the computer was infected with a virus via the peer-to-peer file-sharing program Winny, which had been installed on the computer, the officials said. From The Japan Times Online
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