While demonstrators gather in the streets to contest Iran's rigged election, online backers of the so-called "Green Revolution" are looking to strike back at the Tehran regime -- by attacking the government's websites.Pro-democracy activists on the web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to flood the regime's propaganda sites with junk traffic. "NOTE to HACKERS - attack www.farhang.gov.ir - pls try to hack all iran gov wesites [sic]. very difficult for us," Tweets one activist. The impact of these distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks isn't clear. But official online outlets like leader.ir, ahmadinejad.ir, and iribnews.ir are currently inaccessible. "There are calls to use an even more sophisticated tool called BWraep, which seems to exhaust the target website out of bandwidth by creating bogus requests for serving images," notes Open Society Institute fellow Evgeny Morozov.
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Reformists in fightback mode! Excellent.
It really is incredible to watch the same technology that drove Obama's rise in this country fuel a revolution half a world away. Just incredible.
Technology has always been a superb equalizer. That's why the people in charge typically try to stomp it down whenever possible.
This is what Tom Friedman meant when he said "The world is flat."
The revolution will not be right back after a message
bout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
YES YES YES!!! I've said it before and i'll say it again!! This revolution will not be televised...but this revolt will be twittered!!
ahmadi, haya kon! sabzi foroushi vaz kon!!
For legal purposes, you should not be linking that on your site.
Regardless of the circumstances, you don't want to facilitate your readers doing something illegal.
That's how democracies are born. People taking over power from the corrupts. Technology is the great dividers between those who have and those who don't, but it's always the great enabler for those who want to improve theirs lives! Go Terhani, Fight the Power!
Anyone else read Neal Stephens's Cryptonomicron? I keep being reminded of the protagonists' plan to set up a huge cache of info that could not be suppressed.
If a sci fi story a year ago had posited twitter as the unstoppable force for coordinating the resistance in its demonstrations and denial of service attacks....I would probably have rolled my eyes a bit.
just reading this makes me smile.
the geeks shall inherit the Earth, no matter which country..LOL
Ok. I see. Nice. But. Actually there are at least 3 buts.
First and foremost - the supreme leader.
Second - his Council of the Guardians of the Constitution, the 12 knights in shining mullah.
Third - the fact that most Iranians are not literate, don't speak English and are not pro-Western because they don't even know what the West is. They hate Arabs because of something that happened in the 7th century, hate the US although it should be the UK due to something from the 50s and hate Israel because they were thought to. Obama is cool - his name means "one of us"... but he is black. And they are proud of their bomb.
The real dictator, not Ahmadinejad but the supreme one, picks 4 out of 400 candidates up for election. A balanced mix that gives the impression of constituting real electoral debates and such. The supreme one does not care who wins - he only selects pals and can control everything they do legally anyway. His pals and their followers fight over the one post that brings so much prestige and is up for grabs - but its more like actors and fans fighting over the lead role while the director and screenwriter always stay the same.
The real victory: the courage that people have shown on the streets. The free speech. Definitely more than the establishment reckoned with. But worthless unless somebody dares to mention the real puppetmasters. I wouldn't dare to do it. Somebody will bring "peace" and "stability" to the people soon.
Soeajubg of free speech, the iranians need proxies to beat internet censors
http://blog.austinheap.com/2009/06/15/how-to-setup-a-proxy-for-iran-citizens-for-windows/
apparently my right hand was in wrong place on the keyboard...
that first word should be "Speaking"