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Security problem discovered in Napster music softw
Posted by jark on January 30, 2000 at 12:00 AM   (printer friendly)

Those who use Napster's popular software for trading digital music files may not be as anonymous as they think they are. Napster's program, which lets users see which digital music files other users possess, also exposes their Internet Protocol addresses, according to Internet security consultant Richard Smith. IP addresses are unique strings of numbers that identify users' computers on the Internet...



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