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How not to configure your new Limewire install

After reading a news item on p2p data breaches today, something struck me: the average user simply doesn't understand how important it is to pay attention to the messages during a software install.

Why does it matter? For one thing, it could lead to a massive amount of private information leaking onto a file sharing network like Gnutella. Here are some examples:
  • An executive at a Manhattan production company accidentally leaked over 2,700 documents including the names, birth dates, and social security numbers of contractors, as well as scripts of episodes currently in pre-production
  • A paralegal/transcription service leaked more than 5,000 documents including medical records and confidential attorney/client information
  • A bookkeeper at a food service company leaked thousands of files including scanned driver's licenses, social security, and insurance cards
How do you avoid this? It's pretty simple, actually.

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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