How Haystack Endangered The Iranian Dissidents It Was Supposed To Protect

How Haystack Endangered The Iranian Dissidents It Was Supposed To Protect

In March of this year, Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. government had granted a license to a company whose software would "help information continue to flow freely into and out of Iran." That software was called Haystack, an anti-censorship tool that received glowing coverage from the BBC, NPR, the Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, and many other news sources. [...] As [Austin] Heap promised to tear down censorship worldwide, a group of Iranians began to test Haystack inside the country. It didn't work. On top of the fact that it couldn't pierce the Iranian firewall, Haystack was extremely insecure.

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