Cyberwar Tehran

People couldn't take it to the streets, the beatings were too much.
So they took the fight to a ubiquitous realm to protest, sites caving in.
Political freedom in a sea of information.
They took it to a ubiquitous realm and are winning.

Pulled from wired.

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.

What will happen if Iran strikes a deal with America? Next thing you know, you have American people declared as political enemies of the "free country" and are demonized for their assistance of the Tehran Twitter Attack Team and DDOS of Iranian Govt sites. Much like what happened to the communist in America.

Happy Anniversary 1984!

From the you know it's true dept:

As we move forward into a new decade, a book that was published 61 Years ago today is still one of great relevance and impact. No book has influenced me as much as this one, people, I'm talking about 1984.

"Nineteen Eighty-Four is told through the eyes of Winston Smith, a minor civil servant in the Ministry of Truth whose job it is to rewrite history for the totalitarian state of Oceania. His spirit hasn’t been entirely quashed, though, and he chafes under the yolk, eventually joining a rebellion against the state. He is soon betrayed, arrested and tortured. In the end, Smith wins his freedom by accepting the assertion that 2 + 2 = 5."
- Wired.com

A story where the government employs torture, disinformation and censorship. A book that shows us what will happen if we allow current systems in place to continue on course.
This book is a reminder that we are human and we shall remain free.

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