Talk:Haystack (software)

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This piece of software was just featured on a BBC 2 (millions of viewers) documentary. The reason for this being that the software was used during the 2009 Iranian protests to circumvent censorship of Twitter. Searching for references. - ARC Gritt^TALK 00:19, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A Newsweek article [1] provides background on the origins of Haystack software. Austin Heap is credited with creating the software in response to the Iranian government's supression of cyber dissidents.

--jwalling (talk) 22:42, 6 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

hey, dont redlink it here, redlink it in the article, silly. oh and dont add refs here.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:28, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Newsweek article is probably entirely useless. They clearly did not do well enough in checking their facts. In fact, it should probably be removed as a citation since it has been proven to be a poor source of information and many of Austin's claims about Haystack have been discredited.G8briel (talk) 06:34, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This page should be converted to a disambiguation page. There are at least two other notable software systems called haystack:

• Facebook Haystack - https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Beaver.pdf, https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919 (photo storage system)
• Django search http://haystacksearch.org/

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