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Napster has a security leak

Written by Petteri Pyyny @ 27 Jan 2000 3:55

Napster, the famous MP3 sharing program, has a serious security leak -- it exposes users' IP addresses, claims Richard Smith, an Internet security consultant. Napster's authors say that they are currently working on the problem, but now, users that think that they remain anonymous, are wrong..
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