Peek-A-Booty source is available. The Peek-A-Booty team have posted the source for their great censorship-busting app. The idea is that public-spirited censorware-busters run a screen-saver that makes their computers available to act as a proxy for anyone who wants it, primarily those who live behind repressive national firewalls (cough China cough). The proxies discover each other and those who are looking for them using a Gnutella-like protocol, and when you want a page that is censored by your firewall, you ask one of your anonymous benefactors to pass it to you.
More than a censorship-circumventer, Peek-A-Booty has the potential to act as a distributed, self-evolving route-generator. If Alice has a route to CNN and Bob has no route to CNN, but Bob has a route to Alice, Bob can access CNN via Alice. When giant interchanges like MAE West go down, apps like Peek-A-Booty will take up the slack.
In other words: The Internet interprets damage as censorship and routes around it. Link Discuss (via Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) [Boing Boing Blog]
Brilliant solution to both routing and censorship issues. This could also be used to find faster ways of getting around the web, minimizing the number of hops that you need to to take to get to a high bandwidth site.
