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Eight Indicted for LimeWire Identity Theft

16. December 2006, 11:23 Uhradmin

A grand jury’s handed down indictments to eight people who allegedly used LimeWire to help with their identity-theft circle.

The Denver District Attorney announced that three main players, Michael Sarrasin, 27, Shawn Adams, 32, and Tamara Stesney, 36, were indicted yesterday (Nov. 30) on 115 charges, including racketeering and computer crime. The indictment follows an October arrest in the Mile High City that linked the peer-to-peer file-sharing network LimeWire in an identity theft ring.

Authorities allege the Sarrasin, Adams and Stesney, along with five others, used LimeWire to access names and account information from personal computers and use them to open fraudulent accounts at Denver-area banks, where they’d deposit phony checks and then turn the money over to purchase methamphetamines. Police peg victims’ losses at about $70,000.

No details about how the trio used the software to gain access to personal data were given. Court dates are pending.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.