Hacker News | Iranian government using crowd-sourcing to identify protesters

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	Iranian government using crowd-sourcing to identify protesters (whyweprotest.net)
	25 points by siavosh 399 days ago \| comments

8 points by rms 399 days ago | link

If you're going to participate please bring sites down by exploiting bugs, straight up DDoS is bad for internet access for everyone in Iran.

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3 points by noonespecial 399 days ago | link

You don't need to ddos the network connection. All you need is enough fake names that the database is worthless. How many fake names would it take per real name before its impossible for the police to check them all?

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6 points by gasull 399 days ago | link

Slowloris DoSes sites using low bandwidth.

http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/

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3 points by netsp 399 days ago | link

On the other hand, it's relatively easy.

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2 points by patcito 399 days ago | link

Only if the sites are hosted in Iran.

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6 points by grandalf 399 days ago | link

why not just enter randomly guessed Iranian names into the site... to overwhelm it with incorrect data.

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1 point by fburnaby 398 days ago | link

Don't identify more than a few people from the same IP. It's easy to do QA and spot someone who's putting in fake names if you get carried away.

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3 points by Tichy 399 days ago | link

That article has a flair of "kids playing the internet warz" to it.

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