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Re: Haystack redux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Weis)
Tue Sep 14 19:09:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <8B869F13-206D-423C-A9DD-38934BF0ED68@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:57:05 -0700
From: Steve Weis <steveweis@gmail.com>
To: Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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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