Cult of the Dead Cow to release Peer-to-Peer Software
A computer hacking group best known for creating tools for hijacking computer systems is
turning its hand to civil disobedience and plans to release an application that could scupper government and corporate censorship around the world.
The tool--to be called Peekabooty--will be based on peer-to-peer network technology. This allows data to be distributed directly between computer systems and has attained fame through the emergence of music-sharing technologies such as Napster and Gnutella. Peekabooty hosts will cooperate in a similar way to Gnutella--without a central server--but in this case will share and distribute controversial Web pages.
Grifter: For those of you that need to know now, Peekabooty will be released at DefCon this July.
