UPnP has long been considered a liability by network administrators because of its ability to offer a path through a corporate firewall to devices that use the protocol.

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Once sharing a network connection becomes a legal liability, our already privatized access channels will become less a community resource.

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The small outfit also could play a key role in a virtual retail strategy for Goldman, whose lack of a network of retail brokers was seen as a liability when the firm went public last year.

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