Boy, Forget China, this is liberation for many Americans. This is useful for me to get past an oppressive corporate web censors. The censorship software could not possibly block all of the peers!
Nerd From Hell - with no corporate fear > -----Original Message----- > From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:58 AM > To: Brin_L > Subject: china > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/24099.html > > Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by > government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed > proxy network. > It uses a peer-to-peer model, masking the identity of each > node. So the > user can route around censorship that blocks citizens' access > to specific > IP addresses, because the censor doesn't know they're going there. If > you're a Peek-A-Booty node, you might be doing it on their > behalf. So the > software isn't itself a browser, but simply requires the user to use > localhost in the proxy field of their preferred browser. > >
