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How the Internet helps Iran silence activists
- mvbma 17y agoYou can't choke off satellite uplinks. Maybe the CIA should smuggle some into Iran.
- stse 17y agoActually, if I'm not totally mistaken, you can and they did it with the BBC broadcast. What you do is that you send interference to the satellite so it can't receive any data. Therefor it's always theoretically possible to jam a satellite that is receiving a signal from Iran. The BBC solved the problem by relaying through another satellite.
- stse 17y agoWhen similar event took place in Burma, the government there totally disabled the Internet. I've heard that Iranian economy is more dependent on the Internet then Burma's was. There are efforts by the pirate movement and others to set up proxies and tor exit nodes, with ip filters, for use by the Iranian people.