Peek-a-Boo(ty)

Anemophilous Coward writes "Tom's Hardware has a story detailing cDc's new anonymity app, just demonstrated Sunday. Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed proxy network. It uses a peer-to-peer model, masking the identity of each node. This means the user can route around censorship that blocks citizens' access to specific IP addresses, because the censor doesn't know they're going there. There is also a website dedicated to the project."

Let's see if I understand...

[__aahlyu4518]

If someone has blocked you from the PrOn sites, you get this device and you still get to peek-a-booty ???

cDc using phpNuke

[RussGarrett]

Anyone else see the irony of one of the world's largest "hacker" groups using phpNuke - a piece of software fraught with cross-site scripting and other vulnerabilities - for it's web site?

It seems to me...

[IIOIOOIOO]

That it's going to be pretty hard to gain mass-legitimacy with a name like that?

Freedom Fighter: Acolyte, what tool do you suggest we use to access the world of internet while circumventing our government's oppresive restrictions?

Acolyte: Peek-A-Booty

Freedom Fighter:Please go away.

Excellent!

[1stflight]

For countries living under such horrible restrictions as government monitoring, and censorship with the threat of armed arrest this product will really help restore some sense of freedom...especially here in the United States ....

Re:Good for some, nightmare for others

[shut_up_man]

Dude, you're such a tease... nakedhairyeyebrowedcheerleaders.com doesn't even exist!

And here I was getting all excited...

Re:Good for some, nightmare for others

[Rupert]

I don't administer any kind of network (apart from the 4 Linux & 1 Win98 at home). However, you don't have to be a sysadmin to be patronising and arrogant. And my uid is not particularly low. It's about two orders of magnitude too high to get a proposal of marriage from CmdrTaco.

They are not drones because they are windows users. The reverse would be more accurate.

Where's the "Beef"?

[spotter]

this supposdly "non vaporware" still isn't downloadable from the peekabooty website.

Just because people have seen it run, doesn't make it non vaporware, it has to be distributed.

So where's the Beef? ([lame joke]or should that be dead cow?[/lame joke])

Re:Good for some, nightmare for others

[Anonymous Coward]

When Insensitive Abrasive MCSEs Hang Out Together. Tonight on Slashdot.

Meanwhile, those of us who know how to deal with other people as human beings (as opposed to support tickets) will be having dinner with the new girl from accounting.

"If things go well I might be showing her my O face."

Re:Good for some, nightmare for others

[sharkey]

I don't care how low your uid is, I still find your referring to employees as drones to be patronising and arrogant.

That's right. Please refer to them more accurately. Call them "lusers".

Blocked!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like to use this, but my company has blocked access to the site.

Re:Good for some, nightmare for others

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess you've been living user a rock...

Right or wrong, companies exist to make money. People who surf porn on their lunch hour potentially pose a threat to that reason for existance.

HOW, you say? Companies are liable for all kinds of sexual harassment, including the lone lunchtime pornography viewer. SH lawsuits are expensive and troublesome. The legal test for what is SH is much wider than most would guess. Companies spend a lot of time educating their managers on what might be considered SH and what their responsibilities are to limit the companies exposure to a lawsuit.

The company decides they can't afford any SH problems.

They come up with a list of stuff that is easily under their control and write policies so that everyone knows what is expected.

One policy is that you aren't supposed to use the company computers and networks to look at pornography.

The company reasonably wants to prevent/detect violations of this policy and sets up appropriate measures.

Not that hard to understand. Don't like it, find another company that doesn't have this policy. Good luck trying to bring it up in the interview.

So, um... what is your policy on internet surfing?

What do you mean?

Um, do you like block anything and keep track of where people surf during work?

Yes, why do you ask?

Well, I think that is bogous censorship, man. I should be able to look at whatever I want as long as I get me job done!

Ok! Thank you for coming down... we'll let you know.