I spotted the following note on a toilet door in the Computer Science / Software Eng building today:

"Call 03-[0-9]{8} for a good time..."

Oh dear...

In other news, AllPeers was released as a public beta today. It's a firefox p2p extension, but instead of sharing with everyone you can choose exactly who (from your contact list) gets to see each item you share. It has pretty great potential for sharing large bunches of photos between friends for exampe, and also for just putting random interesting links / files in a pool for like-minded friends to check out.

It's based on bittorrent, so you can share with a bunch of people and you won't have to cop the bandwidth for uploading to each and every one of them individually. Support for regular bittorrents is coming, we're told.

I claims to be "secure", but I can't seem to find anything more concrete than that. Are transfers all done over SSL? Probably not. It's going to be open-sourced at some stage though, so I guess we'll be able to find out soon enough.