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Security outfit targets cDc anonymity app 'Peekabooty'

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Security outfit targets cDc anonymity app 'Peekabooty'

By: Thomas C Greene in Washington

Posted: 18/05/2001 at 17:36 GMT

The press has been blissfully buzzing lately with rumors and long- shot speculation about a privacy/anonymity application called Peekabooty, which white hat group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) is developing for roll-out at this year's Defcon convention in Las Vegas this July.

It certainly didn't take long for UK-based security/censorware outfit Baltimore Technologies to try to parlay the rumors into a fast buck by selling protection from Peekabooty -- which it warns will shelter criminals and pedophiles and lead to all sorts of crippling liabilities for corporate network operators -- with its product MIMEsweeper.

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Some Truth about Peekabooty We can't tell you exactly what it is (though we will in about a month's time); but we can certainly tell you what it isn't.

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