OPENING THE INTERNET

摘要

Austin Heap is an unlikely international saboteur, but last summer the San Francisco-based Web developer staged a digital coup in Iran shortly after presidential-election protests took place there. Heap's Haystack software, smuggled into the country on USB flash drives and passed secretively from citizen to citizen, allowed Iranians to get around the government's notorious Internet filters and, for the first time, freely explore and communicate on the Web.