Haystack, anti-censorship tool specifically for users in Iran, to launch soon.
Written by on Monday, July 6th, 2009 in Latest News.
Cyrus Farivar blogs,
Dare I say it, “green hat” hacker extraordinaire Austin Heap (See SF Chron a few weeks ago) and a group of domestic and foreign techie folks wanting to help Iran have announced the upcoming release of Haystack. Heap writes on his blog that it’s a “new program to provide unfiltered internet access to the people of Iran. A software package for Windows, Mac and Unix systems, called Haystack, will specifically target the Iranian government’s web filtering mechanisms.
Here’s the Haystack site (nothing there at the time of this blog post).
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Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back
