The international hacker group Hacktivismo has released free software that allows anonymous surfing and hides communications from police in countries where the internet is censored, Reuters reports. The software, which is free and is called Camera/Shy, enables internet users to conceal messages inside photos posted on the web, bypassing most police monitoring methods.

At the same time, a German hacker internationally known as ‘Mixter’, announced that Hacktivismo was preparing to launch technology which would allow anyone to create grassroots, anonymous networks where users could access and share information.

The protocol is named Six/Four, in honour of the date when Chinese democracy activists and students were killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989.

The announcement of the plan was made at H2K2, a three-day bi-annual conference that attracts an estimated 2,000 security professionals, computer activists and US hackers.

Hacktivismo said that its software works to bypass national firewalls that allow only partial access to global computer networks. The group also said that the effort will only succeed if millions of web surfers use the software as part of their everyday internet use, providing cover to individual surfers.

See: www.hacktivismo.com

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