A group of hackers has delayed introducing its planned Web software that is meant to allow users to evade government censorship of the Internet. The delayed project, code-named "Peekabooty," was originally scheduled for launch next month at the hackers' convention Def Con, the group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said in an e-mail message to journalists. Peekabooty still needs to be fine-tuned in order to ensure user safety, wrote the hacker known as Oxblood Ruffian, who is identified as CDC's "Foreign Minister." It would be irresponsible to release the program in its current state, he continued. "My main concern is that Peekabooty needs to function with a higher degree of stealth and mitigate client risk as much as possible. In plain English, we don't want our users to attract the thought police because Peekabooty is operating promiscuously," Oxblood Ruffian wrote.
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