Government planning

Looks like the Iranian people are being helped to access the Internet by the development of a new tool called Haystack. Haystack works by hiding the real destination by encrypting the traffic between the client and Haystacks servers. This stops the Iranian government monitoring the clients browsing habits and then using the recorded sites to break down his door and arrest him, killing him if he resists, and keeping him in a dark prison where his rights do not exist. Clearly they don’t deserve that and so we must help them.

One of lifes ironies is that the US state department is helping the developer of Haystack.

Now if you don’t understand what I mean think about the fact that the US government is currently collecting data from all its allies around the world. All their browsing habits and URLs are being stored and analysed by the US so they can go and break down our doors and arrest us, killing us if we resists, and keeping us in a dark prison where our rights do not exist. Clearly we must do what we can to stop these traitors.

So they are helping fund a tool to stop another country doing exactly what they do.

Once Haystack has gone live can we look to the Iranian goverment funding a Western version to enable us to bypass the monitoring by our governments. I hope so. I even think that we would get more use out of it because there must be more of us in the West wanting to bypass monitoring than in Iran. So the Government that may have the most to lose is funding the development of a tool that will be used against it in the future.

Governments do this sort of thing all the time but they never learn. Just think about the stinger missiles given to the Taliban in Afghanistan so they could shoot down Russian helicopters and planes in the 80s. The Taliban were a proxy for us against those evil Russians so we trained and armed them. Fast forward 25 years and those same stingers are shooting down our helicopters and planes and killing our troops while they prosecute a war to put a free government in that hell hole of a country. There is real irony for you.