Bennett Haselton

Bennett Haselton (born November 20, 1978) is the founder of Circumventor.com and Peacefire.org, two US-based websites dedicated to combating Internet censorship. Peacefire.org is focused on documenting flaws in commercial Internet blocking programs. Circumventor.com is dedicated to distributing anti-censorship tools to users in countries such as China and Iran, and as of 2011 has over 3 million subscribers through distribution channels including email and Facebook pages.[1]

Haselton has appeared on CNN and The Montel Williams Show to discuss First Amendment issues and been quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The Village Voice.[2]

Haselton has testified before the US Child Online Protection Commission[3] and as an expert witness for the ACLU.[4]

He is the Guinness World Record holder for the most country capitals named in 60 seconds in response to a prompt of a random country name, achieving the first verified perfect score on December 12, 2015.[5][6]

He listed in the Google Vulnerability Program Hall Of Fame for finding and fixing security holes in Google products.[7]

  1. ^ "Circumventor.com".
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  3. ^ "ALA: Select Testimonies to the Child Online Protection Act Commission". American Library Association. Archived from the original on 2013-02-23.
  4. ^ "Bradburn v. NCRL Decision". Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington. Archived from the original on 2013-04-15.
  5. ^ "Bellevue man clobbers capital quiz, sets Guinness Record". Bellevue Reporter. 24 December 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Most capital cities named in one minute". GuinnessWorldRecords.com. 12 December 2015. Archived from the original on 11 January 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Vulnerability Reward Program". Retrieved January 9, 2018.