Haystack redux

Steve Weis steveweis at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 12:57:05 EDT 2010


There have been significant developments around Haystack since the
last message on this thread. Jacob Applebaum obtained a copy and found
serious vulnerabilities that could put its users at risk. He convinced
Haystack to immediately suspend operations. The developer of Haystack,
Daniel Colascione, has subsequently resigned from the project.

Many claims made about Haystack's security and usage made by its
creators now appear to be inaccurate. These claims were repeated
without verification by the New York Times, Newsweek, the BBC, and the
Guardian UK. Evegeny Morozov wrote several blog posts covering this.
His latest post is here:
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/13/on_the_irresponsibility_of_internet_intellectuals

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