stick to journalism
Stick to Journalism - Thomas C. Greene does what cDc wants and passes on the news of the upcoming PeekABooty tool. It is slightly newsworthy that someone is working on “yet another anonymous browsing tool”. The fact that cDc has some people like dilldog who are actually capable of shipping good software means that something may come of this one. But even Mr. Greene acknowledges that there are other shipping tools that enable anonymous browsing. So it is really hard to stomach when Greene veers off into outer-space and starts projecting all of his loftiest political sentiments onto the cDc members. He proclaims, “That it has both political and philosophical dimensions is no accident. The group is quite conscious of both, and is developing the tool deliberately in anticipation of political impact. In that sense, it represents hacktivism at its best.” And it goes downhill from there. If you can read the article without puking, you’ll wonder what the last half of the article has to do with journalism. If Mr. Greene had been privileged to sit through the looooong and embarassingly desperate-for-attention BO2K launch announcement, he might have attributed different motives. You can’t fault the cDc, though - if whoring for attention is your goal, socially engineering naive reporters like Mr. Greene into free advertising for yet another lame anonymizer is a nice skill to have.