Laugh all the way to the Bank

This was sent in by our Network and Security guy Breakdown and as usual he is pretty pissed off when companies decide that they have a right to use YOUR stuff as part of downloading THEIR stuff for FREE.
According to this News.com story, since February every download of the Kazaa file-swapping client has included some dormant components. When activated, these components can make every machine with the Kazaa client (and there are tens of millions of them) a node in a distributed computing network.

" The company plans to wake up the millions of computers that have installed its software in as soon as four weeks. It plans to use the machines--with their owners' permission--to host and distribute other companies' content, such as advertising or music. Alternatively, it might borrow people's unused processing power to help with other companies' complicated computing tasks."

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