B211 Self-Test Week 4

Current Affairs Self-Test - Week 4

The following are excerpts from newpaper articles. Read the excerpts and answer the question below each excerpt.

Excerpts from an article:
FILE-SWAPPING sites are about to create havoc for many Australian organizations, ... a visiting US security expert has warned.
"While enabling peer-to-peer file-sharing, Gnutella creates a threat to any corporate network,..."

What problems do these file-swapping facilities have that prompted the above comments?

Excerpt:
Melbourne IT has been served with documents involving it in a Californian class action claiming that the allocation of the new ______ domain names is an illegal lottery.
The internet's technical governing body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has also been named in the suit.
The litigants allege the method used for allocating sought-after _______ names constitutes an unregistered lottery, and is illegal in California.

What top-level domain is the above refering to?

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