Yeah, Elinor was here at Defcon. Since there was no real news at the conference, reporters were reduced to writing that there was no news ("cDc suffers from vaporware problem"). --Declan On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:24:26PM -0400, Greg Newby wrote:

This just came up at Yahoo! news. It's nice to see such positive mainstream coverage of the cDc. It makes me wonder whether the cDc are working the spin, or if they just found some sympathetic journalists.

A quick Yahoo! search on Elinor Abreu yields some reasonably competent reporting, I'd say.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010716/tc/tech_censorship_dc_1.html

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Monday July 16 7:13 PM ET

Hackers Developing Anti-Censorship Software

By Elinor Abreu

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A group of hackers is finishing work on software that would enable human rights workers to access censored Web sites, in a move that ratchets up the ``arms race'' between free speech activists on the Internet and government censors in Asia and the Middle East.

The software, called ``Peekabooty,'' was scheduled to be unveiled this past weekend but was pushed back to later this year to make sure it adequately protects those using it, said Oxblood Ruffin, a leader in the group.

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-- Greg