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EFF Says 'Stop Using Haystack'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-will-i-get-my-needles-now dept.

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.'"

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  1. The EFF is like a Movie Reviewer by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they hate it, it means it will be loved by many and have millions of users.

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  2. Re:Ok you've got my attention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's been censored.

  3. Re:Ok you've got my attention by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure why you'd get so hostile towards Twitter posts. I mean seriously, what kind of reasonable idea can't be expressed in 140 charac

  4. Re:140 characters by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 4, Funny

    The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

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  5. Re:Ok you've got my attention by oldspewey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if their handbag ripoffs are as shitty as their HTML ripoffs.

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  6. Re:In other words by rvw · · Score: 2, Funny

    It can't be the Streisand effect! It's well known the Streisand effect only occurs to people and companies we dislike!

    But this is about software that people we dislike dislike. So it's in effect the Streisand Effect 2.0.

  7. Re:Ok you've got my attention by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's why Nerds rule.

    He counted characters and you verified it.

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  8. Re:Ok you've got my attention by kangsterizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pff it's been years and people have yet to realize that 140 characters should be enough to pass the ideas of anyb

  9. Re:Ok you've got my attention by x2A · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh yeah, even our jokes get peer reviewed!

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