Peekabooty coverage from Reuters

[Declan McCullagh]

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
> 
> ...
> 
> 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.
> 
> ...
> 
>   -- Greg