Internet censorship may be a thing of the past if a new program lives up to its promises. Peekabooty, demonstrated at the CodeCon 2002 conference in California, can get around government censorship of the Internet, giving access to people in countries such as China and Saudi Arabia.
The software is a peer-to-peer application. Using this application, users in effect connect to a ‘network’ of Peekabooty computers. Web surfing and other communication between Peekabooty users cannot easily be monitored by the state(s) as the established network enables such Internet traffic to get around detection and control systems.
A random selection of these computers then locate the required information and encrypts the Webpage similar to the encryption for an e-commerce transaction, so the firewall cannot pick up the banned content.
As each computer only knows a few of those on the network, it makes it difficult for governments to shut or block access to the network.
Very little information is released on the users, further hampering efforts to track where the user is located.
However, the program cannot be downloaded yet and recent comments from the programmers, Paul Baranowski and Joey deVilla, indicate that it may be a few months before Peekabooty is ready to deliver on its promises.
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