Haystack vs How The Internet Works

“There’s been a lot of alarming but rather brief statements in
the past few days about Haystack, the anti-censorship software
connected with the Iranian Green Movement. Austin Heap, the
co-creator of Haystack and co-founder of parent non-profit, the
Censorship Research Center, stated that the CRC had “halted ongoing
testing of Haystack in Iran”; EFF made a short announcement urging
people to stop using the client software; the Washington Post wrote
about unnamed “engineers” who said that “lax security in the
Haystack program could hurt users in Iran”.

“A few smart people asked the obvious, unanswered question: What
exactly happened? Between all those stern statements, there is
little public information about why the public view of Haystack
switched from it being a “step forward for activists working in
repressive environments” that provides “completely uncensored
access to the internet from Iran while simultaneously protecting
the user’s identity” to being something that no-one should ever
consider using.”

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