Canadian startup floods country with links to secure servers around globe

By Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen

Rafal Rohozinski is CEO of Psiphon Inc. a company that allows people in Iran to get around the firewalls that block their access to the Internet.

Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, The Ottawa Citizen

OTTAWA • Canadian technology is playing a key role in the current political upheaval in Iran and an Ottawa man is leading the charge.

Rafal Rohozinski, CEO of Psiphon Inc. — the man who recently led the team that busted an international cyber espionage network known as Ghostnet [PDF] — and his team have been flooding Iran with secure network connections to servers located in other countries.