On Monday 04 February 2002 12:31 am, HarryM wrote: > RE the article on the BBCs website at > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1798000/1798095.stm > > I just searched the archives at Securityfocus and CERT and neither produced > any relavent results > > I mean, pointing a browser to http://ip_address:1214/ does give a list of > files... it gives the list of files that you're sharing. So what? > > Anyone know anything about this? > > Harry M It's a piece of FUD from unqualified journalist picking up whatever is told to them somewhere on the internet. Basically the problem is if you are stupid enough to share your whole drive and say you run morpheus on a production windows server as administrator or with admin rights then someone can grab anything they want from your machine. Otherwise it's just stupid. Maybe someone's passport cookie will be stolen and their credit card used to buy porn online. But nothing more. Cheers Sebastian Ip
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