Congressman calls for P2P ban after sensitive data leaks

When he opened Wednesday’s hearing on the hazards of inadvertent file sharing via peer-to-peer software, Representative Edolphus Towns (D-NY) said he was done with letting the industry solve the problem. By the end of the hearing Towns had lowered the boom, announcing that he plans to introduce a bill to bar LimeWire-style software from government and government contractor computers and their networks.