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The  government of Iran knew he was a hacker, he complained, and had frozen his bank account. He’d gotten a tattoo and now couldn’t land a government job. Iran didn’t get startup culture. His father tormented him. He felt trapped. Now he had me, a contact in the United States, and he saw a path out of Iran and into a new life.

This is the fascinating tale of a social media connection made by accident when a hacker took control of a stranger's Instagram account. The internet intrusion led the writer to reconsider what conditions were like for people living in a country she had left years ago