Comments on: wanted: spartacus, an opera unite web proxy for iran

By: bob spence

bob spence — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:28:58 +0000

Check out this option provided by Eric S. Raymond:

“NedaNet, a network of hackers formed to support the democratic revolution in Iran. Our mission is to help the Iranian people by setting up networks of proxy severs, anonymizers, and any other appropriate technologies that can enable them to communicate and organize — a network beyond the censorship or control of the Iranian regime.”

http://www.catb.org/esr/nedanet/

By: Web Hosting

Web Hosting — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:55:49 +0000

So anyone recommend this?

By: comcomist

comcomist — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:09:13 +0000

“….but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet.” <– this is what we can solve, if we attract 5500 comcomist to the ComComizing project. please have time to read the arguments, thanks .

By: James Heaver

James Heaver — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:06:00 +0000

Isn’t one of the big problems that the Iranians can’t tell a legit proxy from a honeypot?

Surely a system like this would just put them in more danger?

By: Danny O'Brien

Danny O'Brien — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:17 +0000

You know that the Gazans can use those same proxies if they want to get past the Hamas filters, right?

By: SomeGuy

SomeGuy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:03:16 +0000

most retarded idea ever…there are thousands of proxies for iranians

stop with this crap, you didnt setup a proxy for gazans

stop being lemmings following the herd trying to subvert iran’s electoral process with a bunch of cia agents on twitter saying lies

By: Carles Mateu

Carles Mateu — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:08:42 +0000

The best solution, IMHO, is still setting up as much TOR+privoxy nodes outside Iran (and, if possible inside Iran) as we can. Using privoxy as http proxy is portable across all browsers (including mobile ones), and after privoxy, TOR should take care of disseminating and hiding information towards the destination.

In fact, TOR is not even necessary in all cases. We are not trying to hide iranian bloggers to their destination hosts (blogger.com, wordpress.com, etc.), but to their origin ISPs, with proxies outside iran that’s enough (TOR also hides originating IP to destination HOST, not necessary as of now if proxies are outside iran).

Inside Iran situation is different, here we must protect also originating IP address, TOR can take care of that, setting as much TOR nodes as possible inside Iran can create a network enough complex to give time to Iranian bloggers to be relatively safe.

By: joe bloe

joe bloe — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:59:45 +0000

Good idea – set up a website & twitter account, etc to disseminate info once you are going.

reckon you will need helpers to give out ips etc on email/twitter – maybe 4 emails ie DOB 01 – 03 xxx DOB 03 -06 yyyy etc

austinheap has done amazing work, dont know how you would get in touch with him….. post how to on titter

By: James

James — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:09:23 +0000

Yeah, it’s a pity Mozilla can’t move beyond the ’90s in PKIX. Maybe Opera could implement RFC 5054, SRP-TLS.

By: Fred Blasdel

Fred Blasdel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:47:38 +0000

There’s no good way for Opera to support https, not with Mozilla’s asshole policy towards alt-signed certificates.