As an addendum to this post, one thing that you do see on the #IranElection hashtag are requests for help with proxy servers and other means of either
“„What started out as an attempt to overload a small set of official siteshas now expanded, network security consultant Dancho Danchev notes. News outlets like Raja Newsare being attacked, too. The semi-official Fars Newssite is currently unavailable.
“„“We turned our collective power and outrage into a serious weapon that we could use at our will, without ever having to feel the consequences. We practiced distributed, citizen-based warfare,” writes Matthew Burton, a former U.S. intelligence analyst who joined in the online assaults, thanks to a “push-button tool that would, upon your click, immediately start bombarding 10 Web sites with requests.”