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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Internet routing around post-election Iranian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Sun Jun 14 19:27:20 2009
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:03:08 -0700
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Greetings. As you no doubt are aware, demonstrations in Iran are
flaring in the wake of what is widely suspected to be major election
fraud.
One of the first steps of the Iranian government during and after
the election was to restrict mobile (cell calls, texting) and
Internet access.
In response to this, new open proxies are appearing around the Net for
Iranian protesters to use, e.g.:
69.92.182.124:2100
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition
for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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