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Friends! Netizens! I am addressing this letter to all those who care about liberty. About freedom of speech. Of expression. Of protest. I am writing you because there are some who might soon not be able to write anymore. The bloggers of Iran.

"What?" - you exclaim - "Iran has a blogosphere?" No. It doesn’t. But not because the Iranians are too poor or ignorant for computers - but because the Iranian government is busy stomping it out. Right up until June, 2004, Iran had a flowering Internet community. Five million users. 100,000 bloggers. And then…

But last June the Iranian judiciary put in place a more sophisticated filtering system that blocks Iranian access to political Web sites and blogs. … Then in September, officials got serious, arresting, interrogating, and even jailing some of the country's bloggers, according to human rights groups. Two of those writers, Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdolahi, remain in prison.

Let me explain to you what this means. You may blame Bush of being a "dictator.’ You may call the EU a "police state". But whatever your political position is - those countries are still a pale imitation of this. The FBI and the GSC are not knocking or your door. Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab are now in prison - because they live in a real police state. They may be tortured. Or starving. We don’t know.

Those two people went to prison because they believed in freedom. Do you believe in freedom? Do you believe, well and truly, that Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab deserve to be free? Now tell me - why are Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab unable to speak - yet Sayyeed Ali Khameinei - their torturer and prison guard - is able to maintain his voice?

His site - http://www.leader.ir/ - has not been shut down. He is not in prison. He is walking free and eating well even as his victims suffer.

Friends, here is my offer. On Irani Election Day, at 12:00, Noon, Teherantime, June 17th, 2005, we silence Sayyed Ali Khamenei.

It can be done simply - log on to http://www.leader.ir/ at that time - and reload your browser multiple times. This would have the effects of a true DNS attack - and yet it is fully legal.

You may if you wish send an email to your closest media outlet about this .We should be heard. Mr. Saminejad and Mr. Nasab should be heard. Sayeed Ali Khameinei, their torturer, should just shut the fuck up.

Please check for news at:

http://shutupsayeed.blogspot.com/

In other options, info@leader.ir is the site’s e-mail address. Feel free to e-mail them with your favorite MP3 song or whatever. J

P.S. In other options, info@leader.ir is the site’s e-mail address. Feel free to e-mail them with your favorite MP3 song or whatever. In fact, you can start mailing them now - just mention this protest in the letter. Let them know why we’re out for them.

Bump

A chance to screw with a islamic fundy dictator, sounds fun! Count me in!

Bumped. Mt-Tau, can you contact me on AiM.

My user name is MicrBalrog.

It probably won’t change anything. But probably isn’t definitely. You can count me in, and anyone I meet between now and the date.

It will surely get it some publicity. Now let's all get the ball rolling.

I will help in any way possible.
Can you contact me at drstrangelove.john@gmail.com ? I would like to syndicate this story on my blog.

I will help in any way possible.

OK. First of all, re-post this message on every forum you can, and second, be there on 3 ET [That's US Eastern time], with your finger on your F5 button.

Just click the link and hit refresh a couple of times? That's all there is to it?

OK. First of all, re-post this message on every forum you can, and second, be there on 3 ET [That's US Eastern time], with your finger on your F5 button.
P.M.?


Anyone know of a program that can translate the site into English?

Just click the link and hit refresh a couple of times? That's all there is to it?

Yea,h on a given hours, many times. The idea is that if enough people do it it will take down the server.

PM, Upper middle, and the site has an English version.

Here's what some knowledgeable friends suggested:

It's a lot easier to type:

ping http://www.leader.ir/ -t

into your run dialog box and ping the site endlessly

3ET is when in GMT?

If I can do this, I will.

Edited for a slightly different hour.

Keeping it bumped.

I'm in, if I can figure out what time 12:00 in whatever timezone Tehran is, in Eastern time.

That's rather early for you.

+3:30 GMT.

That's rather early for you.

+3:30 GMT.
Argh. That would be a problem then...
I suppose I can't help out. Damn.
:(

Set a clock to wake you up, press F5 a few times and go to bed.

Soon enough we'll also be distributing some software to do it for you, too. We're checking into it's legality.

If only allanea was in iran...

If only allanea was in iran...

You really DO love me. :)

You really DO love me. :)

I dont think you understand why I want you in iran.

I'd love to help. Unfortunately I'm in blighty, so its a little early/late for me. A seperate attack could be made for English and Europe, couldnt it?

It would be, if I understand anything 8:30 AM your time.

It probably could. I timed it to the noon prayers.

Still keeping it bumped.

Rest assured that I plan to bring this up at the next Amnesty International meeting.

Psss...Just between you and me, I have men already in Iran. We're planning to carpet-bomb the capital with orange Kool-Aid...

*tag*

I am writing a JAVA-program to auto-DoS them with 20 threads!

I'm so going to do this! I've set a remind on my phone for 8:25 AM on 17th June. I'm in GMT time zone.

I came up with the idea, although Allanea has done most of the work on it. As such, I'd like to ask that you don't use programs. I'm pretty sure those are illegal, and I don't want to have to deal with conspiracy charges.

If you're wondering who I am, I'm the nation of Feline, who is currently having long-term difficulties getting on the forums.

I can't think of any reason why a different attack time couldn't be made, although it would diminish the effectiveness of each individual attack, multiple attacks might be better.

Wait, so what time would that be in Eastern Standard Time (that's what I think I'm in anyway, I'm in CT if that helps).

Wait, so what time would that be in Eastern Standard Time (that's what I think I'm in anyway, I'm in CT if that helps).


Early, early morning. Think anybody could be reponsible for setting up a US attack time?

Anybody willing to help with the coordination of the "strikes" in hours other than 12:00 Teheran?

Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab are now in prison - because they live in a real police state. They may be tortured. Or starving. We don’t know.they live in Guantanamo?

Friends! Netizens! I am addressing this letter to all those who care about liberty. About freedom of speech. Of expression. Of protest. I am writing you because there are some who might soon not be able to write anymore. The bloggers of Iran.

"What?" - you exclaim - "Iran has a blogosphere?" No. It doesn’t. But not because the Iranians are too poor or ignorant for computers - but because the Iranian government is busy stomping it out. Right up until June, 2004, Iran had a flowering Internet community. Five million users. 100,000 bloggers. And then…



Let me explain to you what this means. You may blame Bush of being a "dictator.’ You may call the EU a "police state". But whatever your political position is - those countries are still a pale imitation of this. The FBI and the GSC are not knocking or your door. Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab are now in prison - because they live in a real police state. They may be tortured. Or starving. We don’t know.

Those two people went to prison because they believed in freedom. Do you believe in freedom? Do you believe, well and truly, that Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab deserve to be free? Now tell me - why are Mojtaba Saminejad and Mohammad Reza Nasab unable to speak - yet Sayyeed Ali Khameinei - their torturer and prison guard - is able to maintain his voice?

His site - http://www.leader.ir/ - has not been shut down. He is not in prison. He is walking free and eating well even as his victims suffer.

Friends, here is my offer. On Irani Election Day, at 12:00, Noon, Teherantime, June 17th, 2005, we silence Sayyed Ali Khamenei.

It can be done simply - log on to http://www.leader.ir/ at that time - and reload your browser multiple times. This would have the effects of a true DNS attack - and yet it is fully legal.

You may if you wish send an email to your closest media outlet about this .We should be heard. Mr. Saminejad and Mr. Nasab should be heard. Sayeed Ali Khameinei, their torturer, should just shut the fuck up.

Please check for news at:

http://shutupsayeed.blogspot.com/

I think you might want to make sure that those media outlets you speak to, are aware that what you are doing is not sanctioned by your respective governments. Otherwise you could end upcreating an international incident. Whereby getting yourselves in trouble.

I think you might want to make sure that those media outlets you speak to, are aware that what you are doing is not sanctioned by your respective governments. Otherwise you could end upcreating an international incident. Whereby getting yourselves in trouble.ohhh...if there is a chance to create an international incident....then yes...I want to be part of it :D

Bumped
For life and liberty.

I came up with the idea, although Allanea has done most of the work on it. As such, I'd like to ask that you don't use programs. I'm pretty sure those are illegal, and I don't want to have to deal with conspiracy charges.
what is the problem to access websites in the same way, the browser does, only times 20?

I have done very little work, and more needs to be done.

If anybody at all is willing to help, I may be easily contacted:

AiM: MicrBalrog
MSN: MicroBalrog@hotmail.com
YaM: ilove_freedom2003

So far, this has been posted on the following Internet Forums. Please help us expose this further, we only got 17 days left.

AR-15.com
Peta-sucks.com
TheFiringline
Nationstates
American Minuteman Forums
The Celdonian Diplomatic Quarter Forums
Particracy.net
PCGamer

Emailed to:

ActivistChat.com
Iranian.ws
Regimechangeiran.com
Sosiran.org
Samizdata.net
Iranianvoice.org

Please contact me if you want to help in any way, any help will be very, very, very appreciated. Thank you.

Count me in... :)

Count me in... :)

Thank you, Brother Howitzer. Can you please AiM me?

P.S. In other options, info@leader.ir is the site’s e-mail address. Feel free to e-mail them with your favorite MP3 song or whatever. In fact, you can start mailing them now - just mention this protest in the letter. Let them know why we’re out for them.

Um...not from work... :(

I'll be on AIM in, ehrm...about 13 hours or so, if that helps, which I doubt.

I already posted links to this thread, and basically the whole first post, at the political and general forum of thenflforum.com

...not exactly the largest group, but those who post there are fiercely confrontational. :)

Thank you.

Btt

Screw with an entire country's election using my computer?
Completely legal?

COUNT MEH IN!

OK. First of all, re-post this message on every forum you can, and second, be there on 3 ET [That's US Eastern time], with your finger on your F5 button.
Don't ping it. They'll just dump that traffic, and providers around the world may just start to do this anyway, before they're routed to Iran when they notice a surge converging. Just hitting F5 will reload from cache for many people.

Something like using wget (which is something of a browser in it's own way) to yank all the large graphics (does it have video?) of the site and sending them to dev/null would be far more potent.

Try to get this posted on Fark, Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Craig's List and maybe a highly placed site on google about the project, and the crush of traffic will be the stuff of legend for the five minutes following H-hour on D-day. I might even recommend using the site's IP address, and addresses of other carefully selected sites.

The dumb bastards have at least one video, and creepy pictures.

Thanks. Kibolonia, and others, can you help distribute this?

Hey, I'm in Perth Australia, how can I help?

Hey, I'm in Perth Australia, how can I help?

You can help distribute the news of this to all forums you're member of, and e-mailing it to the authors of your favorite blogs?

And yes, noon in Tehran is 16:30 in Perth. :)

3ET is when in GMT?

If I can do this, I will.

If ET is the same as EST, or the time in New York, then it is currently GMT-4, assuming that it runs on Summer Time.

Thus, 0300 AM EST is 0700 AM GMT, and 1500 EST is 1900 GMT. Depending on which is meant here, it seems pretty ambiguous.

Edit: If it's supposed to be 1200 noon in Teheran, then I guess you mean 07:00 AM GMT.

I assume you're in, too? Can you people re-post it on whatever other forums you're member[s] of?

Shut
Up
Sayeed

Bump! :D

I'm in. That should be what? noon US western?

2400 - Midnight USWest time

Bump... :cool:

I totally want to help out... but, what time is it gonna be in Pacific Time?

Midnight on June 17th

Wow. The Pacific is REALLY far away...

You can still help by distributing it to all forums you are a member of.

Remember, peeps, June, 17th.

you *could* try PMing everyone with a reminder or something like 2~3 days before June 17th.
Along with that, make sure to put why, how, and when (for all locations).
this sounds fun~

That doesn't SOUND fun. That IS fun.

6.30pm AEST!!!!

June 17.


Gotta be there!

Um...I hate to be a major party pooper, but someone on another forum told me that this probably won't work...and he's got definite knowledge on the subject...he runs a network center for a very large national service provider/telecom company.

Can anyone with some technical know-how confirm/deny this?

Well, apart from how one of the people behind this project [not me] OWNS a software company, I don't really know much.

hmm...well, someone on this forum probably has a better idea than us :p

Besides, it can't hurt to try! *shakes fist*

I can't participate in this because I'll be using the time to boycott clouds. I'll be making the same amount of regime change on my own!

I can't participate in this because I'll be using the time to boycott clouds. I'll be making the same amount of regime change on my own!

Actually, RPP, the value of this is to create [hopefully] media attention to the problem.

And you're saying my cloud boycott isn't important?

Very, RPP.

B
T
T

Remember to be there on time

Um...I hate to be a major party pooper, but someone on another forum told me that this probably won't work...and he's got definite knowledge on the subject...he runs a network center for a very large national service provider/telecom company.

Can anyone with some technical know-how confirm/deny this?

He is using a cluster, yes. One can see that with a tcpdump. I would not say that it is impossible despite that... the weak point of any cluster is the load balancing computer and it _can_ be DDoSed. M$ is using a cluster too and they _were_ DDoSed.

Hmm, for me, that would be 6:30pm on June the 17th...

Sounds good.

Welcome, Kanabia. Can you help distribute it on forums you know and suchlike?

I won't participate in this because NOT because I'll be using the time to boycott clouds.

but because I think is not a fair cause...and a waste of my time.

How is it not a fair cause?

Welcome, Kanabia. Can you help distribute it on forums you know and suchlike?

Hm, yes, i'll pass it on. :)

eh, i have a macro-writing program here which would do the whoile refresh for me, and as far as i can tell it isn't illegal to visit a website, so surely an F5-program is fine? good. i could make it timed, i think. i hope.

email me at mysticaloctopus@hotmail.com to discuss.

E-mail sent.

By the way, can yuo help to spread it on forums you know about and such?

This kind of thing DEFINITELY needs LUE behind it.

This kind of thing DEFINITELY needs LUE behind it.

LUE?

LUE?

If you don't already know you probably wouldn't want to ;)

Cool, I live in Cyprus, which has only 1 hour difference from Iran. I'll tell all my friends to do it too. What time exactly?

Cool, I live in Cyprus, which has only 1 hour difference from Iran. I'll tell all my friends to do it too. What time exactly?


Noon, Iran time.

Bump

Damn, fool, Im in!

Anything to piss of a dictatorship!

BTW, what time is it EST again?

Very early morning I think. Look it up using your Windows Clock.

And if it's not a comfortable time for you, you can at least help by spreading this on other forums you know about, can you do that please?

Four Days Left

thanks for sending the PMs out.
I hope there's another one for like... the day b4

i hope ya'll are excited

Deadlines are great, especially the sound when they pass!

It took 2 1.5 liter bottles of Freeway Cola to finish my program, which basically gives you 20 instances to reload instead of just one. The program is written in Java and works where a Java-VM exists, which basically means Windows, Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD. Problem is: I have no Windows, MacOS or FreeBSD, so I did not test it there. This program contains no malicious code for the own computer. Hey, it would basically be impossible to write malicious routines for an OS, I don't own and I am too pro-Linux to injure a Penguin.

The code can be DLed at http://microbalrog.flashwirenetwork.net/requester.java

The class files are at:
http://microbalrog.flashwirenetwork.net/requester.class
http://microbalrog.flashwirenetwork.net/reqthread.class


How to use it:
You need the JAVA-JRE to make the program run. you can get it from java.sun.com . It doesn't matter whether you use 1.4.2 or a higher version. When you have installed the JRE, copy all .class files into the directory in which you can find java.exe. If you are using Linux, you can simply store the files in your home-directory. If you are a Windows-user, open a DOS box, type 'cd "<whereeveritis>"' (replace <whereeveritis> with the path in which the requester is) 'java requester'. As Linuxiano, you can open a terminal (xterm for example) and then type 'java requester'.

PS: Feel free to send me Cola if you like the program :>

Today is so utterly the day!

Do you want to kick a Fundamentalist Regime's rear on the Internet?
No, I don't.

I just tried going to that website to see if it was down (7:40 CT) and it didn't load, so I suppose "good job"?

I just tried going to that website to see if it was down (7:40 CT) and it didn't load, so I suppose "good job"?

Hopefiully...

How would we know?