Hackers to Beijing: Have a Cow!(Encryption program is letting computer users get past the censors)

Business week online. ^ | 8/5/02 | Einhorn

[Rebelbase]

If a Chinese official had to come up with a list of his government's enemies overseas, a 51-year-old former journalist and ex-U.N. official in Toronto proudly admits he would be ranked near the top.

An active member of two computer hacking groups, the man, who goes by the alias Oxblood Ruffin, is leading an effort to help Chinese dissidents by providing them software that allows Internetusers to avoid Beijing's censors. Oxblood is a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, a hacker group that started in the mid-1980s. He is also active in a newer, related group, Hacktivismo, which last month released Camera/Shy, a free program that helps encrypt content on the Internet.

[Rebelbase]

Hackers tend to be fairly libertarian-oriented people, into freedom and democracy, not too much government intrusion into their lives

Unless they are 14 year old script kiddies.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I hate to quote President Bush, because I'm not a fan of his, but like he said...you are either for democracy or against it. I don't think you can have it both ways.

Great minds think alike.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[Pontiac]

China Bump

[LowOiL]

I wonder how much the kiddy porn will use this tech? Perfect tools developed by a bunch of Libertarians.

[Tribune7]

"we will study ways and means of circumventing state-sponsored censorship of the Internet and will implement technologies to challenge information rights violations."

Point for the libertarians.

[Tribune7]

How much kiddie porn used Kodak film?

[LowOiL]

How much kiddie porn used Kodak film?

Have you tried sending your film over the internet? (not suggesting your involvement with porn whatsoever). Would you recommend kiddie porn people develope their film at Walmart? You could of made a better statement if you said a Digital camera other than Kodak film. But the point of this article is how to send hidden photographs without being detected. Your point is mute.

[dheretic]

Gun control advocates love to use that "if it saves one child...." bull$hit just as anti-kp people love to argue that "if banning any tool that could be used to help pedos escape capture stops one child from being molested it's worth it." Either way the tool is blamed for the actions of the perp.

[flamefront]

Someday they grow up and if they still value freedom likely would recognize who else values that and who doesn't too.