Buying a music CD at your favorite music store used to be commonplace until along came Napster. Napster, once a popular file sharing application using peer-to-peer technology, allowed you to download music for free. That was a few years ago. Today this same technology, peer-to-peer networking, has opened the floodgates for anyone to easily download all types of files including pornographic files.
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The documents released late last week show that if it happened online, the NSA was looking at it. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the spy agency formed a research group dedicated to studying peer-to-peer, or P2P, internet traffic. It was trying to determine if it could find valuable intelligence by monitoring such activity. Even though it was mostly popular albums traversing the internet pipes, the NSA still formed a File-sharing Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment FAVA "pod" to poke away at the infrastructure and search the shared files for data of national security interest.
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A lot of people look at adult pornography on their computer or cell phone. Doctors have even suggested that patients look at porn as an alternative and in addition to taking drugs for erectile dysfunction. The simple fact is that men more than women can be visually stimulated. There is however a danger.
British Prime Minister David Cameron earlier this week spoke publicly about a number of measures his country is taking to crack down on child pornography peddled over the Web. A P2P network consists of a group of PCs that can exchange files with one another without going through a centralized server, saving time and bandwidth space. This distributed arrangement, however, makes tracing the source of a file difficult, given that different pieces of a file typically come from different PCs in the network.