Why file sharing networks are dangerous?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 134-138

  Johnson, M Eric ^a   McGuire, Dan ^b   Willey, Nicholas D ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS NETWORKS; CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATIONS; COPYRIGHT HOLDERS; CORPORATES; FILE-SHARING; FILE-SHARING NETWORKS; INFORMATION SECURITIES; INTERNET SERVICES; P2P FILE SHARING; PEER TO PEERS;

INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; SECURITY OF DATA;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 58849107282     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1461928.1461962     Document Type: Article

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