Copyright Law

Limewire to Congress: ?Program is Safe and Secure?

By soulxtc

Tries to reassure representatives concerned over the inadvertent file-sharing by users.

Limewire CEO Mark Gorton has responded to a recent inquiry by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee which said it had ?become increasingly concerned about the significant risks posed to American citizens and entities from the accessibility of sensitive private and government information on P2P file-sharing networks.? It wants to know what?s being done to address it, and Gorton has responded in kind.

Limewire 5, the latest version released last December, “culminates a concerted effort to combat and eliminate inadvertent file sharing,” wrote Gorton.

The program, by default, does not share documents even if a user purposely attempts to do so, Gorton told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It even un-shares documents that a user may have shared using an earlier version of LimeWire.

With LimeWire 5, the latest version of the software, “LimeWire has ensured the complete lockdown of the safety and security of LimeWire users,” said Gorton.

Gorton notes the following upgrades made to the software:

• Does not share documents by default.
• Automatically un-shares documents a user may have shared using earlier version.
• If a user elects to share the contents of a folder or directory nothing added afterwards will be shared unless the user affirmatively elects to do so.

No word yet on how whether the program will ever add the capability of rebuking users for installing the program on a PC with sensitive data in the first PC.

jared@zeropaid.com

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).