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Peekabooty, Camera/Shy Released

Posted by michael on from the carnivore-go-home dept.

An anonymous (how appropriate) writer sends "Peek-a-Booty, a program designed to circumvent mechanisms (such as China's Great Firewall) limiting access to websites, has been open-sourced. It's listed as a "Beta" on SourceForge, but the Peek-a-booty website seems to encourage people to start using it." And Doug writes "PC World reports about a new tool to encrypt text with a click of the mouse and bury the text in an image. After posting an embedded image on a Web site, someone can notify intended recipients by e-mail with code words such as 'Go to this URL to see pictures from my birthday party.'"

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  1. Birthday pics? by ocbwilg · · Score: 5, Funny

    After posting an embedded image on a Web site, someone can notify intended recipients by e-mail with code words such as 'Go to this URL to see pictures from my birthday party.'"

    This product must have already been released since I've been getting emails like that for months now. "I just turned 18! Click here for hot pictures from my 18th birthday party! You won't believe how wild my barely 18 year old friends and I got that night!"

  2. er... by david_g · · Score: 4, Funny

    How are the chinese going to circumvent their firewall to be able to get this program that enables them to circumvent their firewall?

  3. Re:uh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    With new AOL Steganographer 8.0, embedding hidden text in images has never been easier! "All my friends and family use AOL Steganographer!" Now you can, too!

  4. That explains it! by MxTxL · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess all those x10 ads were just a bunch of Chinese dissidents passing messages ICQ style.

  5. Re:hmm by 2g3-598hX · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, don't worry. Echelon is going to start downloading images from the internet now. Ha..the NSA is gonna end up with the biggest pr0n collection in the world...now, people, don't take that as a challenge.

  6. Re:Snake Oil -- ROT13? Old school. by Kredal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh, You really need to get with the program. This message is encrypted with rot-52... twice as strong as rot-26.

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  7. Well... by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seeing as how they've been merrily spamming us for a while now, we could just return the favor, spamming everyone in china with copies of this program. Worst case, the Chinese government comes up with a solution to the spam problem...

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  8. Re:excuse by GigsVT · · Score: 2, Funny

    What if goatse.cx has been used for passing stego messages all along? I mean why else would some guy put up a random sick picture on a domain, and people would constantly post links to it.

    I bet there is a secret code in anonymous Slashdot posts that set off notification to pick up the newest version of gap.jpg off of goatse.cx.

    For example:

    Dirty Gnu Hippie: The plan is ready, go get new instructions.

    BSD is dying: Abort mission, pick up new instructions from hick.org.

    Alan Thicke: Mission sucessful, drinks in safe house tonight

    After all, who is going to run checksums on something silly like the goatse guy? :)

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