USAP staff told not to run peer-to-peer file-sharing programs such as BitTorrent, KaZaa and Limewire. The reason? Antarctic workers will swamp the organisations expensive and limited bandwidth with multimedia downloads. P2P applications have the potential to overwhelm the internet connections on the Ice and inadvertently bring malicious software and traffic into the network, says Dennis L Gitt, Information Technology and Communications director at USAP. Gitt cited the recent example of how details of Michelle Obama’s safehouse were accidentally read more in this article.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/p2p-filesharing-banned-antarctica/