Haystack halting testing because of security concernsblog.austinheap.com 3 pointsbinbasti15 years ago3 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−thristian15yA nice summary has been posted on MetaFilter:http://www.metafilter.com/95686/Needle-program-exchangeIn particular, one of the commenters claims to have analyzed Haystack and found some very scary things:http://www.metafilter.com/95686/Needle-program-exchange#3280...−jgrahamc15yInteresting. That's a post by Jacob Applebaum who works on Tor. His Twitter feed is full of his thoughts about Haystack: http://twitter.com/ioerror−jgrahamc15yGood. They need to engage people and go for the openness and transparency. Otherwise I'd be seriously concerned about the security of this project.I couldn't find a reference to the 'vigorous debate' mentioned. Can anyone point to relevant security mailing lists where Haystack is being discussed?
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A nice summary has been posted on MetaFilter:
http://www.metafilter.com/95686/Needle-program-exchange
In particular, one of the commenters claims to have analyzed Haystack and found some very scary things:
http://www.metafilter.com/95686/Needle-program-exchange#3280...
Interesting. That's a post by Jacob Applebaum who works on Tor. His Twitter feed is full of his thoughts about Haystack: http://twitter.com/ioerror
Good. They need to engage people and go for the openness and transparency. Otherwise I'd be seriously concerned about the security of this project.
I couldn't find a reference to the 'vigorous debate' mentioned. Can anyone point to relevant security mailing lists where Haystack is being discussed?