Researchers Find Gaps In Iranian Filtering

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With all the turmoil and internet censorship in Iran making it difficult to get an accurate picture of what's going, security researchers have found a way to locate gaps in Iran's filtering by analyzing traffic exiting Iran. The short version is that SSH, torrents and Flash are high priorities for blocking, while game protocols like WoW and Xbox traffic are being ignored, even though they also allow communication. Hopefully, this data will help people think of new ways to bypass filtering and speak freely, even though average Iranians have worse things to worry about than internet censorship, now that the reformists have been declared anti-Islamic by the Supreme Leader. Given the circumstances, that declaration has been called 'basically a death sentence' for those who continue protesting." Reader CaroKann sends in a related story at the Washington Post about an analysis of the vote totals in the Iranian election (similar to, but different from the one we discussed earlier) in which the authors say the election results have a one in two-hundred chance of being legitimate.

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It's not all that competently done

[Anonymous Coward]

So, yes, they could manage this farce.

PS how did they manage to get the Shah of Iran in Iran in the first place? How did they manage to get Saddam set in power when the Shah was kicked out?

Manuel Noriega.

Grenada.

Cuba (pre Castro).

Many, many more.

If the CIA can't manage this demonstration, how did they manage all those others?

Re:The 1 in 200 bit is garbage

[skelterjohn]

I said exactly nothing false. Whether or not it is relevant to the topic on hand is left to the reader, but what I presented was just mathematic.

And, for what it's worth, this slashdotter is a PhD student in machine learning (responding to the GP's comment about 2 PhD students vs a slashdotter).

Re:I keep asking myself why we care about Iran?

[Curtman]

(Save the comments about the U.S. putting the Ayatolla into power, I already know.) But I keep asking myself, why should we care at all?

Because the U.S. put the the Ayatollah into power, and tried to prevent the revolution which overthrew the dictator that it saw as being friendly. But you already know that. And because the U.S. gave Saddam support while he used chemical warfare against Iranian civilians.

Those aren't the actions of a country that is fit to be world police. Those are the actions of a sociopath. Especially if you see no reason to care at all.