Peekabooty coverage from Reuters

[Greg Newby]

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