RIAA/MPAA, fear this!
“Peer-to-peer networks such as Morpheus and Audiogalaxy have enabled millions to trade music, movies and software freely. A group of veteran hackers is about to unveil a new peer-to-peer protocol that may eventually let millions more surf, chat and e-mail free from prying eyes.
“Hacktivismo, a politically minded offshoot of the long-running hacker collective Cult of the Dead Cow, will announce the protocol — called “Six/Four,” after the June 4, 1989 massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square — in a presentation Saturday at the H2K2 hacker conference in New York City.
“The group will publish the Six/Four code on its website in early August to coincide with Las Vegas’ DefCon security confab. Six/Four combines peer-to-peer technologies with virtual private networking and the “open proxy” method for masking online identities to provide ultra-anonymous Internet access…”
Click here to read the full Wired article.
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