Tuesday 23 June 2009

Iranian updates (keep refreshing page#42)

Obama will condemn Iran abuses

On Tuesday morning, from 9am all of us all over Iran will make our way towards the markets (bazaar). If they try to block us the market will shut down, and if they don’t then we will create such a swarm that the market will still close down. If the telephones/mobiles are cut off from first thing in the morning business will be disrupted all over the country and markets will close, and with our movement towards the bazaar with the goal of closing it down we will gather others to walk with us.

Bring your children too and very calmly – without shouting slogans – without wearing green – we will look as though we are going shopping but we won’t buy anything and will think only of shutting down the market, and will not leave any traces of ourselves. We will not even show the victory sign with our hands… under no circumstances …
Think only of victory and bring children throughout all the cities in Iran without slogans, without slogans, without slogans, calmly, calmly, calmly without green, without conflict. If someone interferes, don’t engage in conflict because in appearance we are a crowd shopping, there’s nothing to fear and everyone will come – no clashes, no bloodshed, no slogans, no conflict. If they try and stop us we will return home easily because our goal is to shut the market down not protest. If they throw tear gas the market will be closed down, we are clever and we won’t engage in conflict and any conflict on the part of the security forces will cause chaos in the market and it will close, but we will not engage in conflict. We will calmly think of victory and the market will either close from our swarms or from a lack of activity. Either way we are the winners. Moosavi needs your support and needs your leadership to make sure that this goes ahead on time.

Khatami released a statement on Mousavi’s facebook page earlier today.

Millions of informed and decent people who believe that their votes have been tampered with, and that their intellect has been insulted, and for the defence of their rights and dignity have in a spontaneous manner come into the streets to express their pain and sense of oppression. You (the regime) insult them, and have stolen thousands of them from the streets and from their homes and taken them to unknown places. You have attacked the students and to these people who call out God is Great or Ya Hossein – you attack them like Moghuls.

You dare to blame these attacks on the people themselves.

We strongly support Mr. Mousavi – especially against the accusations that all the unrest and damage is due to his actions. This damage is the responsibility of those who turned our city into a barracks. They should be identified, arrested and charged.

Senior clergy across the country have told us that they have been put under severe pressure (by the state) to stand up against the millions of people. Until now, they have resisted. We thank them.

For the return of people’s trust and confidence we ask for the formation of a committee of neutral people, experts, and those familiar with the law who can investigate and address the complaints made by the candidates in the elections. May they issue a fair judgment… and help return our country to harmony.

Statement released by the Organisation of Combatant Clergy, June 22 2009


Shirin Ebadi - Nobel Peace Laureat - calls for International Political sanctions against Iran Gov - #Iranelection RT RT RT




Iranian authorities scramble to negate Neda Soltan 'martyrdom' -HERE

"The Iranian authorities have ordered the family of a student shot dead in Tehran to take down mourning posters as they struggle to stop her becoming the rallying point for protests against the presidential election. "

RT f Iran: new reports coming in.. #iranelection less than 10 seconds ago from TwitterFon

Is Iran DPI censorship story wrong?

’ll begin with the depressing: total anonymization of data traffic is incredibly challenging if you’re up against a dedicated and well-prepared foe. Fortunately, you’re up against a government, which suggests that there will almost certainly be gaps, holes, and errors in any content analysis system that you can use to your advantage. I don’t know what DPI appliances have been sold to Iran (it’s typically a challenge to get this sort of information from companies, even here in Canada), but there are typical modes of ‘resisting’ full content analysis.

(1) Encrypt your data traffic using a TOR node, or something similar. Alternately, use https://proximize.me/ or some other proxy service that also encrypts traffic and you can browse with SSL encryption. DPI cannot penetrate packets that are encrypted - the content is secure when it passes through the devices. The devices *will* still be able to look at header information, but because you would be using a proxy service would not offer accurate destination/origin information to the device.

(2) Wherever possible, use communications systems that are designed to obfuscate what they are; examples of VoIP would be Skype, which attempts to ‘fake out’ heuristic analyses of data traffic. At the same time, I don’t know whether DPI engineers have caught up to the most recent ways that Skype initiates a call, which can indicate the program that is being used.

The challenge that you get into is that, should DPI be deployed effectively, even when it cannot identify the content of the message it can identify what application-type is likely in use (e.g. a web browser, P2P, etc). If you use a series of proxies, however, you will obfuscate the origin of packets (i.e. your location) as well as the destination that you are going to (e.g. hotmail.com, facebook, twitter, etc); this can limit your exposure to particularly obtrusive government surveillance and its effects.

Mass Arrests and Detentions Signal Increasing Repression

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