Tehran's demonstrators rose up by themselves. But the technology that helped them organize -- and helped them connect with the rest of the planet -- was funded in part by the U.S. government. It now appears there are the millions of dollars invested over the years in technologies that could pry open the Iranian firewall -- and avoid the Supreme Leader's web censors.

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