The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran

Death Metal writes "Iranians seeking to share videos and other eyewitness accounts of the demonstrations that have roiled their country since disputed elections two weeks ago are using an Internet encryption program originally developed by and for the US Navy. Designed a decade ago to secure Internet communications between US ships at sea, The Onion Router, or TOR, has become one of the most important proxies in Iran for gaining access to Web sites such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook." A related story was submitted anonymously about the efforts of hactivists to keep the information flowing inside the data-locked nation.

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When I was a kid we used Kermit

[davidwr]

We didn't have Zmodem. All we had was Kermit. We didn't have modems either. We wrote our bits on the back of his little froggy-back 7 bits at a time and waited for him to go and come back with the reply bits. If we were lucky he managed to cross the highway without getting run over.

Anyone know the packet loss of frogs hopping across a desert?

Re:Hmmm

[Eli Gottlieb]

Oooh, ooh! I've got one... the spice melange! Oh, wait...