Iran and the Facebook-Twitter Cyber-Attacks

A source close to Enduring America offers the compelling hypothesis that the recent attacks on Facebook and Twitter may have been aimed at the Green Movement.

“Judging by my past IT experience and the way things developed yesterday, it appears that Facebook administrators put the pages of Karroubi, Mousavi, Zahra R, etc offline in order to stabilise the flow of the entire system, as the DDOS would ostensibly cease once the sites were seemingly knocked off air. This is why FB did not entirely go off air – the pressure on it abated once the reformists page were suspended. Twitter on the other hand was a free for all target, and had to withstand more damage. Another thing that lends credence to this theory is that fact that none of the the suspended pages have lost content or have been defaced. However, all this is speculation until FB and Twitter officially announce what went on yesterday.”

Edit: Facebook have subsequently confirmed to the BBC that the strike was actually aimed at a pro-Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu. In an interview with The Guardian, Cyxymu blamed the Russian Government for instigating the cyber attack.

Comments

[whereismyvote]

From my knowledge of the internet, and having noticed this issue yesterday, I would say unless one is the network administrator at FB / TWITTER and watches the packets and all the details coming over, its next to impossible to hypothesis. Even if it was a cyber attack by Iran tyrant government agents against facebook and Twitter, it was foolish. Once the message is spread that a foreign totalitarian dictator government is doing DOS attacks on FB and TWITTER, it will be hacker / cracker free for all on Iran. Imagine the force that will be unleashed when the world hacker community, with silent approval of the US government start to unleash on Iran. The network in Iran is weak, there is a fundamental gaps in it, due to years of isolation. Iranian computer engineers are extreamly smart and unlike the western counterparts have a deep understanding of the network, but the tools at our disposal is weak. We lack access to the latest equipment software and hardware. Much of the network is just functional. A major attack will be hard and impactful. One major point for all to remember also. The DOS attacks on Iran slows down the ISP's and also the service providers. Most times this means the slower bandwith is passed to average users. Dumb stupid attacks means that users (Iranian people that are keeping this green wave movement going) are affected. Hence you end up negatively impacting the very people you try to help. Attacks should be surgical, priciece and target specific assets not the massess or silly government websites.

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