New legislation introduced in the U.S. House on Tuesday would restrict the use of peer-to-peer (
P2P) file sharing software across the federal government. The
Secure Federal File Sharing Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, comes after numerous sensitive government documents were found on P2P networks, including
blueprints for President Obama's helicopter,
Marine One. —
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