Don't believe everything you read. This evening, for example, Iranian Police and the Basij were sending out hundreds of robo-tweets. They came from several Twitter accounts. Those guys in Tehran who work for Ahmadinejad don't seem to be very creative. All their phony Twitter accounts started with "xyz" and were followed by three digits in numerical sequence. That's some pretty mundane thinking.
These guys were phishing for IP addresses. If someone bites at the bait, they are able to harvest the victim's IP address. Once they locate the source they send out the goons to beat, arrest or kill the person at their keyboard. Yes. Things are that bad!
In the middle of last night the game changed. When it became clear to the Basij that they had been exposed by numerous re-tweets, they tried a new tactic. They began flooding Twitter with as many copies of the same message as they could generate.
Here's the message they sent out with actual URL not included:
#IranElection Tehran Mousavi Iran #neda Neda - How to send an anonymous email ... - http://......
If you use Twitter you can help protect these brave Iranians. Here's how:
..- Set up a new Twitter account specifically for your Iran tweeting action.
- Change your location and time zone on Twitter to Tehran, Iran (that’s GMT+3:30).
- Change your profile icon to green in some way.
- Set up a proxy and send a DM to .
- DO NOT retweet posts verbatim from Iran. This puts the users at risk. The Iranian Minstry of the Interior is watching Twitter closely now. Don’t use names and reword the post.
- Submit e-mails to CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other news sources about the Iranian Revolution; demand more coverage.
- DO NOT DDOS (PageReload) Iranian government websites. It slows all Iranian traffic, doing more harm than good in this information war.
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Tor, powerful tool for Internet freedom - get it to Iran freedom fighters
- Change your profile icon to green in some way.
- Set up a proxy and send a DM to .
- DO NOT retweet posts verbatim from Iran. This puts the users at risk. The Iranian Minstry of the Interior is watching Twitter closely now. Don’t use names and reword the post.
- Submit e-mails to CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other news sources about the Iranian Revolution; demand more coverage.
- DO NOT DDOS (PageReload) Iranian government websites. It slows all Iranian traffic, doing more harm than good in this information war.
More information, tools and ideas from
Also read:
Tor, powerful tool for Internet freedom - get it to Iran freedom fighters
UPDATE: Also, be sure to read the comments to the post, below. You will find some inetersting and useful comments.
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6 comments:
Hi everyone, You know? Instead of moan, be more like those ANGELS and HEROS of Iran: DO SOMETHING. Bring down the fuckin iranian spy sites at http://www.pagereboot.com/ (point to domain, interval=1) After a while, that "information-is-the-coolest" went off (404-error).
regards,
rf-
Some good suggestions above, but I'd like to make some points about 3 of the suggestions:
1. Retweeting usernames and tweets verbatim doesn't put anyone at risk unless they have a protected profile. In fact, it increases the ablity for disinformation to circulate by preventing verification of sources. To many reasons to argue here. See: http://bit.ly/1dqQ5m
2. New accounts are no longer trusted for information from / about Iran, so bailing on your existing account for a new one will not increase trust which is something people really need right now.
3. Setting your location and time zone to Tehran are a nice show of solidarity but it is truly meaningless on a technical level because it can be edited by the user. Things that can lead Basij to a twitterer are non-anonymized IP Address, GPS coords, Real Name and street address. Whether your city and time zone say "Tehran" or "The Moon" makes no difference.
Doh, fail fish on the link above. correct URL is:
http://bit.ly/1dqQ5M
To slshults: Great information. Thank you!
Most welcome, thank you too!
Thanks.... All good advice....
Give bandwidth to Tor....
and especially, setting up new account through proxy...
I have been working for four days... someone just took my existing twitter account down...
And Twiter has NO PHONE CONTACTS. Great.
This could be a long ride...., lets be smart. Thanks
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