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,
I emailed the author Austin Heap again yesterday to ask for some
technical details. He responded and declined to provide any
information.
At this point, I have seen no evidence that Haystack exists.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:10 PM, wrote:
> > Based on those statements, I'm going to speculate t
I sent an email asking for technical information several months ago
and did not receive a response. The FAQ says "the Haystack client
connects to our servers which in turn talk to websites on behalf of
our users" and "from a user's point of view, Haystack appears to be a
normal HTTP proxy". There i
