American kids hacking into Iranian government sites to erase names

[nadinbrzezinski]

GOOD, go for it kids.

No wonder...

Ah the wonders of the world

By the way... you realize why they are confiscating all them electronics? I'll tell you why? We have more people around the world who are Iranians, than actual Iranians.

GO KIDS....

And stay safe.

[BlooInBloo]

1. heh. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if there were an informal MIT group trying to help somehow.

[roguevalley]

29. Anonymous is on this rebellion like tics on dogs.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Which names and for what purpose? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. The ones the Iranian secret police is gathering for later arrest or worst

The ones they are identifying from footage in the streets

[ZombieHorde]

5. Those kids are kick ass. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yep those kids are gutsy

[ZombieHorde]

10. Of course they still have the videos, but maybe this will slow things down

until the situation over there can stabilize with a hopefully happy ending, but not necessarily the sexual kind of happy ending.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. I think this is the beginning of a long battle

but the cycle of mourning is now fully in place, and I am sure the leadership is quaking. They used the same in '79

They are all playing from the same game plan

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Amazing, isn't it?

Cyber warfare by the good guys, on a "street level".
Sort of a virtual mass protest.

It seems fair there should be more people in the world who are Iranians.

Apparently in the election, there were more votes cast than were voters.

Wish there were a way we could let them use our cell phones as replacement for the ones they are losing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Well just making your system reside in Tehran seems to be of some help

BUT

IF you do that, set your security as high as you can.

Front-lines... are now cyber front-lines.

On and goes with out saying if you tweet also set your Tweeter account to GMT +3 aka Tehran time... they have become GMT...

But do set your security ... trust me I had some fun

[K Gardner]

6. K&R for gutsy American ingenuity... it's truly a techno world with our first nerd/jock President :-)

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. I suspect it is just not murican kids

but the cyberwar is getting ahem, interesting... me taking notes

[proteus_lives]

11. Good for them!

Go!

[Pirate Smile]

13. Link? Where did you hear this? Sounds great.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. the rachel maddow show

I smiled

[drm604]

22. What was her source?

Should she really be revealing this publicly?

[lunatica]

23. She's talking about Americans doing this, not Iranians

And she doesn't have to reveal her source, nor should she.

[drm604]

25. Where did I claim that she was talking about Iranians?

I assumed that she was talking about Americans or at least people outside of Iran.

I know that she doesn't have to reveal her source. I was just wondering if she did. It would help in evaluating the veracity of the report.

I'm not sure that she should be talking about this at all. Why reveal to Iranian authorities that this is being attempted?

[bertman]

15. Hell, get them to shut down the whole Iranian government computer network or a power

grid for Tehran, or the police/army communications networks.

That would be seriously kickass.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I would not be too shocked if some of the kids involved

are working on that.

And as I said above, I highly doubt this is just Murican kids...

[bertman]

18. I hope you're right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Well from what the RM show guest said, they have hacked the sites

so turning them off, or blanking the drives should not be that hard to do at that point

If they do, I am betting we will not know though until well after the dust settles, if the "good guys" win.

I use the term in quotations for good reasons, and I still hope they win

[BlooInBloo]

16. Note also that Siemens and Nokia have been helping the current regime...

So it's probably close to a fair fight, on that front.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Link? -nt

[WatchWhatISay]

20. Our new army of 1's and 0's

[juno jones]

21. Anonymous is on the job too, helping set up proxies and shuffle news.

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/

So is Pirate Bay apparently.

These are just two I happen to know about, I'm sure there are more.

Many of the kids are American, but a huge chunk of them aren't.

I've been following their exploits and style of protest for awhile now and am in awe of what they can do with the new network and protest tools that they are honing. But most of all I love their enthusiasm for free speech and the diligent research and posting of documents for public consumption.

[backscatter712]

26. Good for them. Since we're talking cyberwar, JOIN THE PROXYHEAP!!!

It takes a small amount of computer-savvy, but if you've got it, you can make your computer into a web proxy and help the Iranians circumvent their Internet censorship!

Details here: http://blog.austinheap.com/

And whatever you do, DO NOT broadcast your proxy's IP on Twitter or other public places - the only place you should submit it is to Austin Heap, following the instructions at the above URL. You submit your proxy's IP and ports at http://proxyheap.austinheap.com/

Like I said, it takes a certain amount of skill - you have to configure SQUID and your firewall to do some unnatural acts, so as to avoid detection by the Iranian government, but the instructions in blog.austinheap.com should help you with that.

[woo me with science]

27. Love our kids!!!!! nt

[Mari333]

28. heres their website

http://www.catb.org/esr/nedanet/

I have a friend who is doing it..he sent me this

[roguevalley]

30. proud day, this. good people everywhere helping the helpless.

[rug]

31. That's impressive. And what the hell is a Squid proxy?

[Kurovski]

32. I love it.

K&R.

I love the people of Iran. And Maddow has been superb in her coverage, I haven't been at a computer for weeks and I really appreaciate her in-depth reporting.