<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">I seem to recall that something called haystack, with a remarkably similar webpage was the software and donations portal developed by @austinheap during the Iran election. Since Heap's twitter is still linked from the haystacknetworkcom page, I assume that this project remains the offspring of that effort. I can't comment directly, but I recall that the effort seemed pretty legitimate at that time. I assume that it's still legitimate, even if not free software in the strictest sense. The Censorship Research Center is San Francisco non-profit, started by Heap. They do have a contact form on their about page: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.censorshipresearch.org/about/">http://www.censorshipresearch.org/about/</a><div>
<br></div><div>While I think that free (as in speech as in Stallman) software is the best way to go, I can understand why someone of good intentions might think otherwise. I reckon that haystack is not a malicious honeypot, or cynical effort to relive people of their cash. However, I do think that the project may not be overly successful, and that donations would do more good elsewhere.</div>
<div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 May 2010 02:45, Scott Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bennett@cs.niu.edu">bennett@cs.niu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I don't know who "Censorship Research Center" might be, but they claim<br>
to have a development project going for another encrypted proxy service.<br>
However, they say it will be free software, but *not* be open source, so no<br>
one can examine what they have done in order to look for bugs, design flaws,<br>
etc. :-( There isn't much real information at the web site,<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.haystacknetwork.com" target="_blank">http://www.haystacknetwork.com</a><br>
<br>
but what little there is looks very much like an attempt to sucker people<br>
who don't understand much about security.<br>
Oh. I almost forgot. Their FAQ page mentions tor, complaining about<br>
tor's publicly available directory and arguing that their method is better,<br>
while not mentioning bridges.<br>
<br>
<br>
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG<br>
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