Bill Introduced to Ban P2P Applications on Federal Systems

R. Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee, has introduced the Secure Federal File Sharing Act, which will ban peer-to-peer applications on federal systems. The move follows the recent leak of a document on an ethics investigation into members of Congress via a P2P application.

The bill will require the Office of Management and Budget to prohibit the use of any P2P applications on…