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

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

ferg to me:

> > And your evidence that the incoming (from Iran's perspective) DDoSes
> > are being perpetrated by "anti-establishment" (presumably the more pro-
> > democracy/more liberal, free-speechers/etc) folk is?
>
> No evidence needed.
>
> Whomever is perpetrating any DoS attacks is completely unjustified, in my
> opinion, due to the unintended consequences -- and there's a lot of them.
>
> Collateral damage is only one.
>
> The bottom line is that when people take up "digital arms" in the form of
> DoS attacks, everyone loses.

I agree.

But in a case like this, the Revolutionary Guard (or whoever/whatever 
on the side of the "establishment" in Iran) may well have decided that 
that is the lesser of two -- ummmm, "evils"...

And Robert did seem to the be favouring the rather unsupported 
position/assumption that the (D)DoS attacks are being perpetrated by 
the "pro-change" side in this issue.



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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