Iran Getting Better At Filtering Web Traffic 68
Al writes "Rob Lemos reports that Iran's national ISPs seem to have recently gained the ability to filter large quantities of web traffic more effectively. Arbor Networks used data gathered from distributed network sensors to monitor the data going to Iran from the global internet. The firm found that all of the country's providers showed an enormous drop in traffic following the contested June 12 election, then nearly normal traffic patterns until June 26. After that, five of six national ISPs showed an 80 percent drop in traffic for approximately three weeks. The one internal ISP that continues to see significant traffic during those three weeks counts many government ministries among its clientèle. The picture painted by the data is of an ISP that is becoming increasingly skilled in filtering, says Craig Labovitz, chief scientist for Arbor Networks."
Tactics (Score:5, Insightful)
Iran's national ISPs seem to have recently gained the ability to filter large quantities of web traffic more effectively.
Quite good tactic. Instead of fighting, now every country and RIAA/MPAA wants to do business with Iran to implement these high-performing filters everywhere.
Re:Filters (Score:1, Insightful)
That would be a re-import.
Operation AJAX (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:is it possible to do (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, they might look good disguised as a camel or a roadside bomb.
Satellite dishes work pretty well from beneath wood and cardboard. Shielding it from view isn't so much a problem as the radio transmissions. Satellite technology is still "radio" and even when it is highly directional, it still produces a lot of signal that can be picked up by trucks with sensory equipment.
And yes, you can bet Iran will have official government "War Driving."