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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: 'Hacktivists' take up Iran fight as streets quiet By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER,Associated Press Writer AP - Sunday, June 28 EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. ADVERTISEMENT ___ A sharp clampdown by Iranian authorities may have quelled street protests, but the fight goes on in cyberspace. Groups of "hacktivists" _ Web hackers demanding Internet freedom _ say they are targeting Web pages of Iran's leadership in response to the regime's muzzling of blogs, news outlets and other sites. It's unclear how much the wired warriors have disrupted official Iranian sites. Attempts by The Associated Press to access sites for state news organizations, including the Islamic Republic News Agency and Fars, were unsuccessful _ with a message saying the links were "broken." Other Iranian Web sites, including the official site for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were able to be viewed. It's the latest in a widening front of attempts at cyber attacks by activists and others. Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the creation of a new military cyber command that will coordinate the Pentagon's efforts to defend its networks and conduct cyberwarfare. In the Iranian showdown, the co-founder of the Open Source Movement, Eric S. Raymond, has launched a site called NedaNet, after 27-year-old Neda Agha Soltan, who became a global symbol of the postelection protest movement after videos of her death by gunfire was posted on Web sites. Raymond described his site as a place for hackers and Iranian protest movement sympathizers from around the world to team up in developing a system of proxy sites that cloak the location of users in Iran from the Iranian government. Iranian authorities have launched a wide-ranging clampdown on many Web sites, including blogs, independent news outlets and sites linked to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims the June 12 presidential election was rigged to hand victory to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. On Saturday, Raymond reported the group would be forced to change some of its tactics because the Iranian government had "upped the level of Internet censorship it's engaging in." Iranian government monitors were inspecting traffic more closely to see if users were accessing blocked web sites, he said. "We're trying to provide a covert communication channel for dissenters and revolutionaries to organize through," said Raymond in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Raymond said a team of six hackers spend their days writing software to help Iranian Web users bypass state controls. More than 1,000 other people have offered bandwidth on servers to host proxy sites. A Web page titled "Freedom Sucker" shows eight Iranian government sites, including Ahmadinejad's blog, that are under a constant, automated attack by the page's anonymous creator. Every second, the page attempts to reboot the pages in an attempt to overload them. Other groups are also working to create Internet havens for Iranians, including a group called Project Hydra and the Free Net project. Raymond said that many of the groups are wary of allowing media interviews because hackers tend to operate in anonymity. Meanwhile, the average Web surfer can simulate an attack on an Iranian state news organization of their choice. A Web site "War, war, until victory" allows visitors to engage in symbolic hacktivism and was developed by an Iranian blogger from Isfahan. With the click of a button, an attack is simulated on the Web sites, including IRNA and other state news organizations. "These buttons are only a way for the frustrations of young people to be settled and in reality are only an attack on their sorrows," the site's administrator wrote in an e-mail to the AP. The administrator commented on condition of anonymity because of fears of government reprisals. Cyber attacks have been around for years, but have gained increasing attention from governments and security services since Russian hackers waged a high-profile blitz on Estonia's government and private sector Web sites in May 2007. In response, NATO set up an Estonia-based cyber defense center and plans to include cyber defense in NATO exercises. ___ On the Web: NedaNet: http://www.catb.org/esr/nedanet/ "War, War, until victory": http://yamobile.blogspot.googlepages.com/attack.html "Freedom Sucker": http://warriors-attack.blogspot.com/ Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Related Articles: World Police: NYC day care was drug havenAP - Sunday, June 28 Jackson family statement on death of pop starAP - Sunday, June 28 Ukraine president's party wants to leave coalitionAFP - Sunday, June 28 Albanians set to elect new parliamentAFP - Sunday, June 28 GM, US near agreement on legal claims: reportAFP - Sunday, June 28 Most Popular – World Viewed Saturn moon may harbour life-giving ocean: study Jackson feared dying like Elvis: Lisa Marie Presley Pop icon Michael Jackson dead: TMZ.com website Egyptian tycoon to hang for Lebanese diva murder Oil prices hit reverse as Wall Street slips View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! 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