Haystack needs your help to support a free Internet in Iran!
9
Jul
Moment of Truth

Moment of Truth

Here are some screenshots from a machine inside Iran that’s running Haystack:

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In the upcoming days we will be building out capacity of the backend network, building some tools to help us keep everything running smoothly, and getting Haystack into the right hands. We’re not there quite yet, but the light is quite bright at the end of that tunnel.

Don’t forget, we still need your help!

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Tags Posted under Internets, Iran by Austin

21 Responses


  • Fantastic!! Well done, not long now!

    by: lissnup, Jul 9th at 6:29 pm

  • wonderful – you shine a light unto us all.

    by: oddeyed, Jul 9th at 6:30 pm

  • wait… does it have to be a line-mode browser?

    by: oddeyed, Jul 9th at 6:31 pm

  • You’re doing a really amazing job helping the people of Iran. Keep up the great work…. I’m sure Haystack will help immensely!

    by: dreamer, Jul 9th at 6:35 pm

  • Nope, it doesn’t have to be a line mode browser.

    by: oddeyed, Jul 9th at 6:40 pm

  • I’m a Tor developer and I’m local to San Francisco. I’m interested in helping with Haystack. I noticed you’re not on IRC at the moment. Would you care to contact me?

    by: Jacob Appelbaum, Jul 9th at 6:44 pm

  • God bless you for your work Austin jaan (means dear in Farsi). Keep up the good fight! Your work is invaluable and is frightens the tyrant.

    by: Shahpour, Jul 9th at 7:38 pm

  • YAY
    honestly the more i saw postings for tor, and wondering how i could help, i kept wishing for someone to deliver BULK BANDWIDTH! and you folks are doing it. i don’t have money. really none. but i do play music. do have PA gear for a reasonably small to mid rally. i do have love for freedom and those who work toward that. that means I LOVE YOU FOLKS!
    i already sent you message via twitter and facebook
    i’m in the city, at ocean beach

    teaksmama

    by: teaksmama, Jul 9th at 7:51 pm

  • PLEASE HELP ME TO HELP THEM! I cannot stand as a human being to see this happen to my brothers and sisters! Please contact me. Caliday

    by: Caliday, Jul 10th at 12:19 am

  • We’re in London and would love to help with server or other tech, if you need it somewhere else in the world. Now that our trip to visit the family in Tehran seems to be off due to the liklihood of arrest at the airport, we’ve been talking about how we can get more involved in doing something.

    by: drew3000, Jul 10th at 6:29 am

  • Austin – the proxies submitted to Proxyheap, is it still useful to keep them up and running?

    by: spacefiddle, Jul 10th at 11:04 pm

  • God bless u guys!!! Thanx

    by: Amin, Jul 11th at 8:45 am

  • Much appreciated Austin. Khoda omret bedeh (may you live long):)

    Just a personal comment: I saw the old Shir-o-khorshid (lion and sun) symbol that used to be in our flag. I like it, except I don’t like the raised sword… it used to give me the creeps in the old days, as I associated it to the Shah’s regime’s ability to do harm. I know this is a philosophical discussion that can’t be resolved here, but symbols are important, and I, for one, object to the violent element in that symbol. Nonviolence rules!

    by: kaveh ahangar, Jul 11th at 10:13 am

  • …just to add to my last comment, my vote: if you leave the symbol in the background, as shown in your screenshots, just delete the sword. The lion staring is cautionary enough. Peace, brother, and freedom.

    by: kaveh ahangar, Jul 11th at 10:19 am

  • Great stuff Austin. I can’t wait to see it, making Iran’s firewall redundant.

    P.S. I have to agree with Kaveh’s comment. We need to remember that the goal of this campaign is to restore power to our elected president, whose campaign colour was/is green.
    I don’t think people in Iran would feel comfortable with having a s/w on their PC’s with shah’s “Shire Khorsid” logo in the background. Particularly the regime loves to accuse our freedom seeking people of just being a bunch of antirevolutionary monarchist.

    Would it be possible to consider a different background logo? Something green, about freedom and human rights.

    Thank you and wish you all the success.

    by: Kasra, Jul 11th at 5:23 pm

  • Thank you very much for doing this greate jub. God bless you. I hope that this will be very soon ready and will help our people in Iran.

    Good luck with your greate job

    by: Azghorbat, Jul 11th at 8:19 pm

  • I am willing to assist as much as I can, I do have some technical background. I am spreading the word to try to get more people aware of this great cause and to help with donations and other technical assistance.
    You are all great people for doing such an amazing job. You’re playing a pivotal role in this movement and are making history.

    Thank you and good luck.

    by: Peyman, Jul 14th at 4:08 am

  • Thank you man, if you need sb to try, I am willing to do it for you

    by: Mehdi, Jul 19th at 10:59 pm

  • Just thank you so much

    by: zeinab, Apr 7th at 1:03 pm

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