Re: Remote support for Iranian protestors making it harder them to reach the outside world?

[Steve Pirk <orion () pirk com>]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, chris () blask org wrote:
> A friend of mine live-blogging the incident asked this:
>
> "...there seems to be a raging debate as to whether the DDOS attacks on government websites screws up bandwidth and 
> make it harder for ordinary Iranians to connect there." Would love some informed opinions on this topic."
>
> Anyone have an idea what connectivity to/from Iran consists of?  Think all the page-reload DDOS stuff could disrupt 
> outbound access from the protesters?
>
> -chris

The students I have listened to are fairly confident it is active 
outbound blocking. Heck, ground lines barely work. Everytime they find 
a new site/address to get to or proxy through is soon blocked 
(including one I set up :-)

I am sure inbound ddos is messing things up, but my gut feel is active 
blocking of sites... Twitter is about all they can use. Did these 
ddos attacks kill sms before the vote on Friday?

Just my opinion.

--
steve
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