A single DDOS can ruin a mullah's entire day!

Talk is cheap, and there's not much I can say that would help the Iranian protesters. What I'd really like to do is something -- anything -- that goes beyond talk. In that regard, Glenn Reynolds linked a post by Eric S. Raymond which asked for help:

I've spent the last seventeen hours living inside a cyberpunk novel. A libertarian cyberpunk novel. It's been a weird and awesome experience.

Within an hour after I received a plea for help from Iran, a regular commenter on this blog recruited me into a hacker network that has been forming to support the democratic Iranian revolutionaries by providing them with proxy servers, Tor anonymizers, and any other technologies needed for them to communicate over channels the Iranian regime cannot censor or control.

As Glenn points out,
He's looking for volunteers, if you'd like to help.
I would, except I don't have any of that stuff or experience to offer.

However, via a link that José Guardia posted, I found something more my speed.

PLEASE HELP by clicking here and keeping the window open as much time as you can; it's a DDOS script to try to bring down Iran's official websites. Let's see if we can all make them stop blocking cellphones, SMS, Twitter, email, etc. And tell your friends!
Now that's easy! And cool.

I'm only too glad to run the script and pass it along.

Again, the link is here, and I hope it helps. (If it's now been rendered ineffective, or anyone knows of a better approach, please let me know.)

The way I see it, if spreading a DDOS can help give one mullah a bad hair day, it's worth all the talk in the world.

UPDATE: From Eric S. Raymond, an important comment:

Please do not attempt to DDOS Iranian sites from outside the country. It is a BAD IDEA.

Here's why. Iran's pipe to the ourtsise is narrow. If you flood it, the demonstrators won't be able to use our proxies and won't have communications.

I have therefore removed the links above.

posted by Eric on 06.24.09 at 01:21 PM





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Please do not attempt to DDOS Iranian sites from outside the country. It is a BAD IDEA.

Here's why. Iran's pipe to the ourtsise is narrow. If you flood it, the demonstrators won't be able to use our proxies and won't have communications.

Eric S. Raymond   ·  June 24, 2009 06:23 PM

Please do not attempt to DDOS Iranian sites from outside the country. It is a BAD IDEA.

Here's why. Iran's pipe to the outside world is narrow. If you flood it, the demonstrators won't be able to use our proxies and won't have communications.

Anonymous   ·  June 24, 2009 06:23 PM

Thanks, Eric. The links have been removed.

Eric Scheie   ·  June 25, 2009 08:31 AM

DDoS is harmful for protesters.
Thanks for taking down the links.

Provide proxy servers.

Read this if you want to help or get help!

www.iran.whyweprotest.net/news-current-events/2449-green-brief-9-niteowl.html

The government in Iran is still increasing internet filtering and throttling in an attempt to silence their people. Anonymous info shows that many in Iran are looking for proxy and Tor information in Tehran and all around the country. Please donate your bandwidth to help bring down the Iran Curtain. Here are links on how to help and get help on this:

English: Tor and the Iranian Election - Bring down the Iran Curtain | Ian's Brain

www.tinyurl.com/lexowb

hans   ·  June 26, 2009 06:05 AM

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