Peekabooty, Camera/Shy Released

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.'"

Comments

Birthday pics?

[ocbwilg]

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!"

er...

[david_g]

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

That explains it!

[MxTxL]

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

Well...

[Greyfox]

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...