joe, im going to forward you an email from a conversation i was having with bennett haselton (anti-censorware activist and a programmer for the circumventor project) and a friend of mine is going to be blogging about all of this later this morning, so i will pass that along also.

just figured id give you a heads up here.

Mirroring and proxying.

Mirrors of static content will get around blocks aimed at the hosting sites; proxies will get around ALL blocks.

Anyone know if there's an identifiable range of IPs for Iran? If so, people running Apache servers could easily set them up to allow Iranian to proxy off their servers.

actually the circumventor project is a very effective proxy method that can be run from any comp running a dsl or cable modem. it was developed in the past year to fight against chinese and saudi censorship (with us gov backing for the project) and is effective in dealing with everything from library censorware in smalltown america to iranian blog blocking.

am in the middle of working with leen from http://saoirse.oige.net on some detail work for an entry about this now. although the breaking news about the hussein sons is competing for attention at the moment.

in the meantime, more info about circumventor can be found here: http://www.peacefire.org

it took a little bit longer than expected, but the entry about iran and netblocking that leen was working on is up at:

http://saoirse.oige.net

I submitted an entry about this matter to Greplaw from Harvard Law School's Berkman Center. And I have tried to encourage "hoder" to get in touch with Ben Edelman who has a lot of experience with this issue.

It has been my experience with the Iranians that they are lacking in crucial coalitioning skills to get something done because they keep getting distracted by anti-Semitism.

Truthfully, I think they're going to end up as an empty slogan on a refridgerator door for the next couple of decades at least if they persist with this approach.

They keep insisting they don't want our help.

well i hope they wake up to the opportunity for the better life they so desperately want before we are forced to act for them. i do get the impression that some are definately lost in side tangents, but i still have hope that most wont lose track of what really matters to them. if anything, we are all going through many changes and the situation is very fluid. the best thing we can do is to remove any obstacles to communication the mullahcracy puts in place so we can at least discuss all of this with persians directly.

Well, we're trying.

The next thing I expect is where the thugmullahs expand their franchises into brandname kleptocracies, like: the SwatchWatch Mullah-- he's the mullah in charge of all Swiss watches. You want to buy or sell a Swiss watch? You gotta go through him, and he takes his commission (baksheesh) either way. They could "privatize" all of Iran soon like that.

I hope they start playing around with their new penile toy soon and Uncle Sam STEPS on it and smashes it. :-)

Great site guys... Keep up the good work :)

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