The international hacker group Hacktivismo has released free
software that allows anonymous surfing and hides communications
from police in countries where the internet is censored, Reuters
reports. The software, which is free and is called Camera/Shy,
enables internet users to conceal messages inside photos posted on
the web, bypassing most police monitoring methods.
At the same time, a German hacker internationally known as
‘Mixter’, announced that Hacktivismo was preparing to launch
technology which would allow anyone to create grassroots, anonymous
networks where users could access and share information.
The protocol is named Six/Four, in honour of the date when
Chinese democracy activists and students were killed in Tiananmen
Square on June 4, 1989.
The announcement of the plan was made at H2K2, a three-day
bi-annual conference that attracts an estimated 2,000 security
professionals, computer activists and US hackers.
Hacktivismo said that its software works to bypass national
firewalls that allow only partial access to global computer
networks. The group also said that the effort will only succeed if
millions of web surfers use the software as part of their everyday
internet use, providing cover to individual surfers.
See: www.hacktivismo.com
