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Iranian government using crowd-sourcing to identify protesters
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whyweprotest.net
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siavosh
on June 24, 2009
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kf
on June 25, 2009
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If you're going to participate please bring sites down by exploiting bugs, straight up DDoS is bad for internet access for everyone in Iran.
gasull
on June 25, 2009
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Slowloris DoSes sites using low bandwidth.
http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/
noonespecial
on June 25, 2009
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You don't need to ddos the network connection. All you need is enough fake names that the database is worthless. How many fake names would it take per real name before its impossible for the police to check them all?
netsp
on June 25, 2009
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On the other hand, it's relatively easy.
patcito
on June 25, 2009
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Only if the sites are hosted in Iran.
grandalf
on June 25, 2009
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why not just enter randomly guessed Iranian names into the site... to overwhelm it with incorrect data.
fburnaby
on June 25, 2009
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Don't identify more than a few people from the same IP. It's easy to do QA and spot someone who's putting in fake names if you get carried away.
Tichy
on June 25, 2009
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That article has a flair of "kids playing the internet warz" to it.
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