I Don't Believe in ideal capital writes "With all the turmoil and arpanet censorship in Iran making it tough to get an precise picture of what's going, safety researchers have found a way to locate gaps in Iran's filtering by analyzing traffic exiting Iran. The short version is that SSH, torrents and Flash are high priorities for blocking, while game protocols like WoW and Xbox traffic are being ignored, even though they also allow communication. Hopefully, this data will help people think of new ways to bypass filtering and speak freely, even though average Iranians have worse things to worry about than world wide web censorship, now that the reformists have been declared anti-Islamic by the Supreme Leader. Given the circumstances, that declaration has been called 'basically a death sentence' for those who renew protesting." Reader CaroKann sends in a related story at the dominion Post about an dissection of the vote totals in the Iranian decision (similar to, but else from the one we discussed earlier) in which the authors say the appointment results have a one in two-hundred chance of being legitimate.

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