Cyberwar Guide for Iran Elections
The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter.
This was taken from http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cyberwar-guide-for-i.html
1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran. If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.
2. Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.
3. Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.
4. Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.
5. Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind…
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Haven’t used twitter before. Very interested in the events. Am originally from Serbia and this reminds me of the velvet revolution there when they overthrew Milosevic. Wanted to add and maybe you can pass on that a year before the overthrow Serbs marched in the streets for 90 DAYS in rain, sleet and snow every day and at 6pm, the official government evening news hour, everybody brought out pots and pans and beat them with various instruments to drown out the news. It was extremely effective. The effort worked. At the end of the 90 days, Milosevic’s governmetn had to give in and recognize the opposition’s win in the elections of the 13 major municipalities. Iranians should just keep marching peacefully in ever greater numbers. The world is watching and supporting them.