RINF NEWS<\/p>\n
As protesters take to the streets, both sides of the debate have taken to the the Internet.<\/p>\n
Twitter\u00a0and other blogs\u00a0are being used to\u00a0direct users to a number of sites and tools\u00a0that encourage people to\u00a0target government web sites.<\/p>\n
“Democracy needs you, Twitter!” wrote a user named temp09. “Twitter, do not condemn the people of Iran to silence,” another named tinyi added. “Upgrades can wait. The people dying in Iran cannot,” pleaded a twitterer going by the name hoopiest_frood, when a Twitter network upgrade was announced in the midst of the action.<\/p>\n
The attacks are mainly aimed at damaging infrastructure to prevent comminucations. News sites are\u00a0also on the hit list.<\/p>\n
One activist Tweets:\u00a0\u201cNOTE to HACKERS<\/a> – attack www.farhang.gov.ir<\/a> – pls try to hack all iran gov wesites [sic]. very difficult for us.\u201d<\/p>\n However the Iranian government are involved with the\u00a0web site hacking, Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic Magazine, \u00a0is said to be the target of denial-of-service attacks.<\/p>\n One programmer, Robert Synott,\u00a0warns that Iran\u00a0“will simply pull the plug to protect the rest of their network”, if too much DDOS traffic hits the county’s servers.<\/p>\n In 2007, all Internet access was cut in Burma by the government to prevent people sharing reports, photos and videos of protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RINF NEWS As protesters take to the streets, both sides of the debate have taken to the the Internet. Twitter\u00a0and other blogs\u00a0are being used to\u00a0direct users to a number of sites and tools\u00a0that encourage people to\u00a0target government web sites. “Democracy needs you, Twitter!” wrote a user named temp09. “Twitter, do not condemn the people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-5843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"tag-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}