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Cohen is the author of a free program called BitTorrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing--that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people leech, downloading content but refusing to share. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time--a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download...
...search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president of the search advisory firm Goebel Group.) These free programs, typically just a few megabytes in size, are easy to download. Once installed, the software gets to work indexing files, a task that can take several hours and is done only when the machine is idle. From then on, you simply click on an icon or a toolbar to use it. Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google .com) works inside your...
...problem, iCommons poll tool, on Thursday after the The Crimson demonstrated that it had allowed any internet user to look up the ID numbers of all Harvard students and employees. The tool had permitted poll authors to add anyone to a list of respondents to their poll, and then download a spreadsheet of those people’s e-mails, ID numbers and names...
Websites accessible with a Harvard ID and birthday include the eRecruiting site, which would allow an unauthorized user to download or post a resume on someone else’s account or to submit and withdraw job applications. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences e-mail registration page also verifies identity through ID and birthday, while setting up campus mail to forward to a different physical address requires the ID and the last four digits of a student’s social security number...
With a Harvard ID and birthday—obtainable by undergraduates through an online facebook, and more widely through websites like anybirthday.com—a user can post or download resumés on someone else’s eRecruiting account or access the online UHS health insurance waiver form. Individuals can also activate an e-mail address for someone who is eligible for a Faculty of Arts and Sciences account but has not requested...