Posts Tagged "Iran"
Internet Wars
As you may know in the past few days there has been a movement against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government in Iran. I’m not going to go into the political details since it’s not really related to the purpose of this blog, but what has been interesting in this political battle is the tension that the government and the opposition has been having on the Internet.
In Iran the government controls the media. Internet has been widely used by the opposition, most of oppositions movements have been organized using their websites on the Internet. To stop the opposition, the government has been targeting their websites by overloading their servers, also known as DOS (Denial Of Service) attacks.
On the other side the opposition have done the exactly the same. This webpage is an example of what the opposition has been doing. They have sent this URL to Iranians all over the world and have asked them to keep this webpage open in their browser. What this page does is that it reloads the websites used by the government again and again. If this is done by many people than these websites will stop responding due to the overloaded requests to the servers.
