Safemedia Corp. Backs Congress’ Call for Ftc to Crack Down on P2p NetworksSafemedia Corp. Backs Congress’ Call for Ftc to Crack Down on P2p Networks

Author: George S. Mc Quade III

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been asked to promptly investigate recent disclosures of inadvertent file sharing over contaminated peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and to take steps to ensure that potential risks posed by contaminated P2P networks are incorporated into the Commission's ongoing efforts to combat identity theft.





A strongly worded letter this week (10-17-07) to the FTC chairman signed by Committee Chairman Waxman and 18 congressmen, calls for an immediate investigation and stiffer enforcement and expanded efforts and penalties to protect consumers from inadvertent file sharing and identity theft caused by contaminated P2P networks. The committee has proven that these networks are known to allow the mass redistribution of copyrighted files, classified business information, national security data and personal identification documents.





“Chairman Waxman and 18 congressmen have recognized the real threat of Contaminated P2P networks. SafeMedia has the technology to support their vision in stopping the distributors and developers of contaminated P2P technology. Living by the letter of the law is what made America great; contaminated P2P is a proven menace to our society and a real threat to our national security and freedom: 19 congressman recognize this threat and they are obviously concerned by the continuous criminal activities of individuals who use the most important invention of our time; “The Internet” to steal the intellectual property of others,” said CEO Safwat Fahmy, SafeMedia Corp.





“Although we recognize that P2P networks have the potential to deliver innovative and lawful applications that will enhance business and academic endeavors, reduce transaction costs, and increase available bandwidth, these networks must also be used in a way that protects sensitive government, personal, and corporate information and copyright laws,” said House Committee Chairman Henry Waxman On Oversight and Government Reform. “In our view, the FTC should play an important role towards that end.”





Retired General Wesley Clark told a congressional hearing this summer “P2P Networks is the next national security threat.” On September 21, 2007, the Associated Press reported the inadvertent release of more than "5,000 Social Security numbers and other personal details about customers of ABN Amro Mortgage Group," a division of Citigroup.”





Referring to the first indictment last month against an individual for ID theft using computer file sharing programs the letter said, “Recent developments underscore the potential threats posed by P2P file-sharing. According to DOJ, the suspect is linked to 80 victims and more than $70,000.00 in fraud.”





Recent studies and Congressional hearings have shown that contaminated P2P network users often do not realize they are involuntarily sharing their files with the world. A March 2007 United States Patent & Trademark Office report, which analyzed Kazaa, LimeWire, BearShare, eDonkey, and Morpheus discovered that all five “repeatedly tricked users into uploading infringing files inadvertently.”





The PTO report concluded that the five popular programs “repeatedly deployed features” for the purpose of tricking users into sharing files that they might not otherwise want share.”





SafeMedia vigorously supports the members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for challenging the FTC on addressing the complex threats of contaminated P2P networks. “SafeMedia has the only products available today that can eliminate the threat to personal, corporate, and national security associated with inadvertent file sharing on encrypted or non encrypted contaminated P2P networks; without invading user privacy or impacting normal Internet traffic.” said Pasquale Giordano, president/COO, SafeMedia Corp.

About the Author:
George McQuade, Executive Vice President of MAYO Communicatons, is a national award-winning entertainment, government, corporate communications and multimedia expert. He is the past president of Entertainment Publicists Professional Society (EPPS), NY/LA and is currently the West Coast Bureau Chief for www.odwyerpr.com.

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Set Goals for MLM Network Marketing Success

Author: Kozsun Huseyin

MLM Marketing is big, but even with a laid out plan we can sometimes find it hard to succeed in MLM Marketing. setting goals is a important part of success in many fields including Multilevel Marketing opportunities. What we need is a laid out way of setting goals which we can turn to reality.





By reading every word in this article, you will learn:


* MLM Marketing & work from home


* Defining setting goals?


* How to effectively goal set in our MLM Marketing home based business to be a success





::: The MLM Marketing home based business :::





Some people join MLM Marketing opportunities focusing on the 6 figure income. They'd make themselves a very large goal which is hard to see any results on the short term. In the end of this type of person after seeing no results for several months, decides to leave the MLM Marketing industry. This is very unfortunate, and it is good to take a look at how we can be successful in MLM Marketing.





MLM Marketing is beginning to boom again. Many people are realizing the benefits of having a home business and making cash working at home. An opportunity which promises and has the potential to grow to create us a fortune is always in demand. We join a MLM Marketing opportunity and everything is laid out in front of us. We get access to a blueprint that works. This is great, but we sometimes can get overwhelmed.





::: What exactly are goals? :::


All journeys begin with the first step. You've heard it so many times, now it is time to apply it to your MLM Marketing home based business opportunity and start to be more successful in MLM Marketing.





So what exactly is a goal?


A goal is something you want to achieve or hit. A goal can be anything, to get up at 07:00, to go on vacation, get a prospect to say yes or even make a million this year.





These are all goals, however in this article you will learn the best practices to make consistent wins. What we need to do is to take a goal and make it a bite size goal. And how we go about this, is to look at for example the million dollars income this year.





Our first step is to take this goal and break it down into manageable pieces. In effect we make this goal a one step at a time process. The benefit is we can consistently have small achievements which take us forward to achieve our major target.





::: How to effectively goal set in our MLM Marketing home based business to be a success :::


With the previous example what we would do is to work backwards. We know to make a million dollars in a year we should be aiming at approximately $100k a month. This is where the problem begins, as most people are usually not even earning a thousand dollars a month in a part time home based business!





When I first started in MLM Marketing, I had such a view as well and went for the big stakes. I didn't achieve anything and a felt down. This is when my upline suggested I first get the first person into the opportunity then work from there.





What you now need to do is to look at an amount or goal and break it down. If you are not even earning a dollar, your first aim is to get your first dollar. After that increase it to $10 next month, hundred dollars the following month, then thousand dollars and so forth. As you continue like this working small and increasing you will achieve massive success sooner or later.





Another big suggestion I offer you is to stick with a goal until you achieve it, and only then go to the next goal.





To your success,





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America’s New National Security Risk P2p Networks

Author: George S. Mc Quade III

Washington, DC & Hollywood, Calif. — “We found more than 200 classified government documents in a few hours search over Peer-2-Peer networks,” said Retired General Wesley K. Clark



at a recent Government Reform Committee hearing (7-24-07). Describing it as the new national security risk Clark said, “We found everything from Pentagon network server secrets to other sensitive information on P-2P networks hackers dream about.”



Clark, now the chairman and CEO, of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, and a board member of Tiversa, Inc., which conducts 350 million searches per day, compared to Google’s 150 million daily searches.



“If everyone knew the scope of the risk of P2P networks, America would be outraged and demand solutions” Clark suggested regulation and mandatory defensive active monitoring programs, especially for sensitive government documents. “If you wait for the lawsuit, you have waited too long.” Clark noted that many of our national information security leaks were fresh, complete and often were distributed on home computers over P2P networks.



Chairman Henry Waxman (D) investigating the P2P networks invited LimeWire and StreamCast to testify along with other interested experts on illegal filesharing before the U.S. Houses of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Last March, United States Patent and Trademark Office released a study revealing that inadvertent file-sharing continued to threaten individual privacy and national security.



“This is the new threat to Homeland Security,” CEO Robert Boback, told the hearing. “We found thousands of corporate cases from banking statements, server passwords, financial data, public company data, human resources, medical records and fortune 500 company minutes on compliance.”



“One of the defining characteristics of contaminated networks is that users rarely ever know that they are sharing the files on their computer with other users on the network,” said SafeMedia Corporation Chairman Safwat Fahmy in his written testimony on how SafeMedia’s technology was developed to address illegal sharing of copyrighted materials on contaminated P2P networks. “Our technology eliminates all the identity theft and security risks of contaminated P2P networks that affect consumers, students, businesses and our national security.”



Fahmy also stated in his written testimony to the Committee that, “P2P networks, in order to work and survive, requires that all users share files. If users are unable to share files to be downloaded, then the network would be pointless and cease to exist. So, the developers of the P2P software create a directory on the user’s computer called “shared” to be uploaded on demand to any user on the entire network most often without the user knowledge, at the time of installation.”



Other startling testimony surfaced from Professor M. Eric Johnson, director, Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. To illustrate the threat of P2P file sharing, his researchers ran a set of “honey-pot” experiments. They posted the text of an email message containing an active VISA (debit) number and an AT&T phone card in a music directory in a contaminated P2P network that was shared via Limewire.



“It appears that two takers of the card were able to obtain funds as the activity was split into two groups,” Johnson told the hearing. And it happened, “because one taker used Paypal, which is more US-centric, while the other used Nochex, which is UK-centric. Within another week, the calling card was also depleted. Examining the call records of the card, all of the calls were made from outside of the US to two US area codes - 347 (Bronx, NY) and 253 (Tacoma, WA), illustrating the P2P threat both within and outside of the US. Even more interesting, long after we stopped sharing the file, we observed the file continuing to move to new clients as some of the original takers leaked the file to others.”



In a second study, researchers examined bank-related documents and found circulating sensitive data as bank statements, credit reporting agency records, user ID and password lists and tax returns were inadvertently "shared" with millions of people. There was also evidence of sensitive government information being distributed through P2P networks over a two-month period.



“At SafeMedia, we have developed business solutions combining P2P Disaggregator technology (P2PD) and a Digital Internet Distribution Solution (DIDS) that prevents contaminated P2P networks from indiscriminately being accessed by users’ computers,” explained Fahmy. “Our solutions utilize advanced technologies such as: Adaptive Fingerprinting and DNA markers; Adaptive network patterns; Intelligent libraries; Remote update and Self-healing to effectively drop all contaminated P2P traffic with No Invasion of User Privacy. P2PD is fully effective at forensically discriminating between contaminated and non-contaminated P2P traffic with no false positives whether encrypted or not: P2PD operates at network speed with little or no latency.”



Fahmy added “The purpose of P2PD technology is not to shut down P2P networks or inhibit P2P technology. “We allow traffic from non contaminated P2P to pass to its destination we only drop traffic to and from contaminated P2P networks.



“Many users now are enjoying the protection of their identity and safety of their network from contaminated P2P network by using SafeMedia’s products which are available now for immediate implementation in DSL/Cable modems or as a standalone network appliance named” Clouseau” said Fahmy.



[Editors note: For media interviews contact George McQuade, MAYO Communications, 818-340-5300. For more information about SafeMedia Corporation product line visit www.SafeMedia.com or call 561-989-1934. To hear today’s testimony from the U.S. House Of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, on the” Inadvertent Filesharing Over Peer-To-Peer Networks Hearing," please visit: http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1430 ]

About the Author:

George S. Mc Quade III is a national award-winning journalist and media expert, often quoted in business, mainstream and high tech media circles. He is the West Coast Bureau Chief for O'Dwyer Publications in New York, which is the only daily behind the scenes publication on media. McQuade founded MAYO Communications & MAYO PR, an international award-winning entertainment publicity and public relations firm based in Los Angeles with offices in New York and San Diego, CA. MAYO Communications is a 100 percent woman-owned and Spanish-owned PR firm with three

company websites: www.MayoCommunications.com; www.MayoPR.com; www.LAentertainmentPublicity.com.

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