I am not suggesting this was the intonation of Fabio's comments, but let me preempt an idea that is bound to come up again -- *please* let's not DDoS anything inside of Iran, even if conducted from the inside. The infrastructure of the country is already poorly run and hindered by access to technology as it is, the network stress of such activities only compounds the problem. During the day, packet loss appears to be as high as 20% at times, and throughput is half of the night. Application-layer attacks are cute, but the last thing that is needed is a bunch of anons running LOIC again.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) < [email protected]> wrote: > On 5/14/13 5:00 PM, Amin Sabeti wrote: > > The 2013 Iranian presidential election is rapidly approaching, with the > first round of voting set to take place on June 14. This election is tipped > to be one of the most unpredictable contests in recent years, with the > conservative establishment having fragmented dramatically since 2009. > http://storify.com/smallmedia/has-iran-finally-launched-the-halal-net > > I think that a set of pro-active actions have to be taken, by acquiring > hundreds of placeholders "from inside" in order to trigger "help" at the > right moment. > > Probably a very big "activist controlled botnet" would be a valuable > tool... maybe a bit aggressive, but possibly very useful! > > Fabio > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- *Collin David Anderson* averysmallbird.com | @cda | Washington, D.C.
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