From what I have seen Iran’s elections were no more fucked up than our own in the USA, so we ought best keep our mouth’s shut.

I’d suggest that you’ve not seen enough.

For example: Mousavi is a Turkish-speaking Azeri. The Azeries make up 1/4 of all eligible voters in Iran. Karroubi (the other reformist candidate) is a Lor. Apparently we’re supposed to believe that Ahmadi-Nejad trounced both of them in their home provinces and among their own ethnic populations, by a landslide.

It’s the equivalent of McCain taking, say, California and New York by a huge margin, with a historically high turnout in both states.

And “keeping

…And “we ought best keep our mouth’s shut” sounds like you think folks Stateside are shaking their heads at the silly Mooslims and their corrupt election.

The point is to support the people who’ve been disenfranchised, not point fingers.

I am not sure about the name, but we really need that meme. When somebody tries to stifle criticism only based on nationality grounds. “Americans should keep silent” “Venezuelans have no ground”, etc..

Why should an individual shut up because he happened to be born in a certain place? Why an individual that might or might not agree with his government be accused of agreeing? This is a despicable argument that emerges time after time in debates. We need a meme to make it undesirable. just like over the top Nazi comparisons and Godwin’s Law.

i’ve been considering this issue, today. what i’ve gathered is that many young people believe that what the government is putting out as “news” would be more appropriately known as ‘lies’. apart from the benefits of shutting down disinformation, there is a demonstration of power inherent in DDOS attacks. the government can’t like that much. when you have civilian militia storming a major university to beat and arrest students and vandalize dorms, what exactly are your weapons? well, smart people use their brains, and in our modern age, their computers, to fight back. (not too surprisingly, computers were explicitly attacked at the university, as demonstrated in photos of the ransacked dorms.)

i’m not computer literate enough to consider joining in on these attacks. but i see their value and reason, and won’t condemn those that do. i will hold solidarity with those attacked for protesting, and hope that some kind of resolution is arrived at soon, so that bloodshed can stop in Tehran and the rest of Iran.

“Hey, to protest we crashed the Iranian government’s computers! Both of them!”

How to set up a proxy for Iranian citizens (Windows)

How to set up a proxy for Iranian citizens (CentOS/RedHat)

[A repeat from my earlier BB comment, but now with Windows]

How to setup and run a TOR relay/bridge? Pretty simple. I’m doing it.

@Thebes

People.Are.Being.Shot.For.Protesting.

@Joe: Neither Boing Boing nor I, personally, take any advocacy position here. Nowhere did I or my colleagues recommend DDOsing anyone. Read the blog post, please, not the invisible teleprompter in your head.

It looks like there are a variety of methods being used here. But if a DOS is widely distributed, and there aren’t any bogus requests, then it’s not that insane to compare it to a nonviolent sit-in.

Must be quite an experience to be a network admin and have to weigh server maintenance against a potential revolution on the other side of the planet.

The major persons you’ll be afflicting are engineers that I’m pretty sure haven’t been elected in the last week. Most aren’t even in Iran! They will have need make a decision, and that will not reflect their political views, and yes their job to maintain fair and balanced network access.

But, as the internet uses to say… “Anonymous does not forgive”, right? Have at it.

Yesterday it seemed that twitter was being hit by bots repeating the same pro-Mousavi tweets.

From what I have seen Iran’s elections were no more fucked up than our own in the USA, so we ought best keep our mouth’s shut.

Thebes, I do think that the Iranian election was stolen (I might have believed a narrow Ahmadinijad win, so the theft was clumsy, maybe deliberately so). I also think that the Florida 2000 vote was stolen, and I don’t see how that requires Americans to shut up.

But there is a point to what you say: the Ahmadinijad line will be that the CIA is trying to fuel a coup, so it would be a particularly bad idea for Americans to participate in DDOS attacks against official Iranian sites.

It’s irresponsible of BoingBoing to encourage it.

Since when is reporting a form of encouragement? No where does Xeni say go out and hack Iran.