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Heap, an IT director in San Francisco, has been on the virtual front lines of the crisis in Iran, helping people there protest the presidential election, which opponents of the incumbent regime maintain was fraudulent.
Austin Heap, a 25-year-old information technology consultant in San Francisco, is running his own private proxies to help Iranians, and is advertising them on Twitter. He said on Monday that his servers were providing the Internet connections for about 750 Iranians at any one moment. “
Together the two 20-year-old somethings developed some anti-filtering software called Haystack. In lofty terms, Mr Heap said it “is designed to honestly uphold human rights via technology.
Coverage
- Surfing under the radar to access restricted content online - July 30, 2010
- New Software Takes On Internet Censorship - May 14, 2010
- Censorship in Iran - May 6, 2010
- A Software That Enables Iranians - April 25, 2010
- New Software Could Outwit Tehran's Censors - April 22, 2010
- 'Haystack' gives Iranian opposition hope - April 16, 2010
- Helping Iranians Beat Internet Censorship - April 15, 2010
- Software lets people sneak past Iranian Internet censors - April 14, 2010
- U.S. License Lets Group Send Anti-Censorship Software to Iran - April 13, 2010
- Kicking it up a Notch in Cuba and Beyond - April 10, 2010
- Austin Heap v Iran's censors - March 29, 2010
- Winners of the 2010 Megas announced - March 25, 2010
- A meetup for the world's youth activists - March 10, 2010
- U.S. Hopes Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies - March 7, 2010
- Target Iran's Censors - February 18, 2010
- Computer savvy activists launch attacks - February 15, 2010
- How Iran's political battle is fought in cyberspace - February 11, 2010
- The web makes the personal political - February 5, 2010
- What's monitored online? - January 18, 2010
- Hackers Attack Ahmadinejad’s Web site - January 5, 2010
- Online Activism Can Work - January 4, 2010
- Internet policing in Iran - December 31, 2009
- Iran's online protest faces more savvy regime - December 30, 2009
- Help Iranians Harness the Internet - December 17, 2009
- Neda and the Haystack - December 8, 2009
- We met online, after the election - November 1, 2009
- On Iran's virtual front line - August 6, 2009
- Wanted: Unused USB Thumb Drives for Iran - July 27, 2009
- One Way to Help Iran Protesters: Donate Thumb Drives - July 27, 2009
- How Geeks (and Non-Geeks) Can Help Iranians Online - July 17, 2009
- S.F. techie helps stir Iranian protests - June 17, 2009
- Social Networks Spread Defiance Online - June 15, 2009
Releases
- Anti-Censorship Software Licensed by US Government for Export to Iran - April 13, 2010
- Exec. Director of Haystack Project Named 'Innovator of the Year' - March 25, 2010
- Haystack Developers Announce Successful Test; Plants Program in Handful of Iranians Abroad - July 17, 2009
- "Haystack," Program Providing Unfiltered Internet Access in Iran to be Released - July 6, 2009
Contact
Austin Heap
austin@censorshipresearch.org
http://blog.austinheap.com
