Canadian researchers have discovered that a numbers of personal health records are available via P2P networks.

"The authors intended to determine whether P2P clients were exposing personal health information, but their approach -- downloading all files from a set of common document formats -- provided them a clear picture of just what's being made available on Gnutella and eDonkey: personal identification, health, and medical information, and a healthy collection of trojans," writes Ars Technica's John Timmer.

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