The New Peer-To-Peer Security Problems
As Clifford Neuman, senior research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, explains, "Some of the biggest dangers from peer-to-peer networks stem from their 'always connected' status (read 'always vulnerable') and the fact that one is now running servers on machines that are managed by end users -- and the fact that these end users don't know how to securely manage a server." Neuman is principal designer of the Kerberos authentication system.
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