Five Technologies Iran Is Using To Censor the Net

alphadogg sends in a Network World piece on the unexpectedly effective technologies Iran is now employing to thwart their citizens' access to the Net. "While the government's initial efforts to censor the Internet were blunt and often ineffective, it has started employing more sophisticated tools to thwart dissidents' attempts to communicate with each other and the outside world. Iranian dissidents are not alone in their struggle, however, as several sympathetic hacker groups have been working to keep them online. One such group is NedaNet, whose mission is to 'help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize.' NedaNet project coordinator Morgan Sennhauser, who has just written a paper detailing the Iranian government's latest efforts to thwart hackers (PDF), says that the government's actions have been surprisingly robust and have challenged hackers in ways that the Chinese government's efforts at censorship have not."

Re:Don't Worry Folks

[ServerIrv]

Agreed. I'm optimistic that there will be a day when there are no wars, but unfortunately I think that will be right after the meteor wipes us humans off the face of the earth.

Can't open TFA

[sakdoctor]

Is slashdotting one of the technologies being used by the Iranian government?

Re:USA

[AlexCorn]

I'm waiting.

is one of the technologies...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is one of the technologies forcing all traffic through a single Microsoft Proxy Server on an NT4 server with 128mb ram and a scorching celeron 366 to round out the "Internets" Congestion System? Just sayin...

Re:No, YOU wait.,

[Q-Hack!]

please, dont SHIT online without knowing enough about what you are going to shit about.

I think you missed the entire point of /.