How the Internet helps Iran silence activists

Posted by wheels on Saturday June 27, 2009 @09:07AM
from the slate.com dept.

http://www.slate.com/id/2221397

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Re:How the Internet helps Iran silence activists by stse on Sunday June 28, 2009 @02:24AM (#677562)

When similar event took place in Burma, the government there totally disabled the Internet. I've heard that Iranian economy is more dependent on the Internet then Burma's was. There are efforts by the pirate movement and others to set up proxies and tor exit nodes, with ip filters, for use by the Iranian people.

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Re:How the Internet helps Iran silence activists by mvbma on Saturday June 27, 2009 @12:47PM (#676962)

You can't choke off satellite uplinks. Maybe the CIA should smuggle some into Iran.

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Re:How the Internet helps Iran silence activists by stse on Sunday June 28, 2009 @02:34AM (#677567)

Actually, if I'm not totally mistaken, you can and they did it with the BBC broadcast. What you do is that you send interference to the satellite so it can't receive any data. Therefor it's always theoretically possible to jam a satellite that is receiving a signal from Iran. The BBC solved the problem by relaying through another satellite.

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