EFF Says 'Stop Using Haystack' 136
tenco writes "Based on a blog post by the CRC today, EFF warns against using Haystack for circumventing censorship firewalls in Iran. Jacob Appelbaum states on twitter: 'Haystack is the worst piece of software I have ever had the displeasure of ripping apart.'"
Ok you've got my attention (Score:5, Interesting)
Problems with the approach (Score:5, Interesting)
First, a "privacy system" with "central servers"? What's wrong with this picture?
Second, if you need to hide traffic, you need a big bidirectional flow to an "approved" site to hide it in. Who has that role? Iran blocks Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Google, plus 5 million other sites [wikipedia.org], so finding some place outside Iran to hide the traffic will be tough.