When are people going to learn, programs like Limewire are much more dangerous than they think? Maybe stories like this will make them think twice about file-sharing…..who am I kidding, probably not!

A Seattle man has been arrested in what the U.S. Justice Department described as its first case against someone accused of using file-sharing digital data to commit identity theft.

Gregory Thomas Kopiloff primarily used Limewire’s file-sharing program to troll other people’s computers for financial information, which he used to open credit cards for an online shopping spree, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Source: Globe & Mail

~LC

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The most referenced and most often used command on any Linux distribution is man, which lets users read the manual pages of other commands. Here are a couple of less well-known but useful commands that let you bookmark a position within a man page, and test a command you read from the man page without closing the page.

 

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Secrets of the man command