The USAPA removes many of the checks and balances that prevented both police and the foreign intelligence agencies from improperly conducting surveillance on US citizens who are not involved in criminal or terrorist activity. For Internet users, it opens the door for widespread surveillance of web surfing, e-mails and peer to peer systems. In addition, the protections against the misuse of these authorities -- by the foreign intelligence agencies to spy on US citizens and by law enforcement to use foreign intelligence authority to exceed their domestic surveillance authority -- have been greatly reduced.
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Does anyone know what a peer to peer system is?
What Is P2P...And What Isn't
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Not being a techie, I don't pretend to understand this in any detail--but at least this one is written in English :)
Simply put, it's when two computers communicate directly with each other. With a web browser, there are MANY computers acting as clients that are communicating with the web server. Peer-to-peer is a more of a one to one relationship, with the two computers acting as both client AND server. Napster is an example of a peer-to-peer system, although it is an example of a many-to-many relationship.
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