Hubble Starts to Wake Up
Posted by on under wder, iranian protesters, reas, few minutes, iran, yahoo | 
We have no reason to suspect this is true, but a ZDNet blogger claims that Yahoo! has been passing personal information about Iranian protesters to Iran's government. In the last few minutes, Yahoo! has denied the claim. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it could possibly be true. (YHOO)
Posted by on under basler zeitung, deutsche welle, ghom, reuters, search ch, teheran, nbsp, news search, atom, iran, deutschland |
 Kurier | Atom-Inspekteure wollen iranische Atomanlage in Ghom inspizieren Deutsche Welle TEHERAN: Vier Experten der Internationalen Atomenergiebehörde IAEA sind in Teheran eingetroffen. Sie sollen die erst seit kurzem bekannte zweite, im Bau befindliche Anlage zur Urananreicherung im Ort Fordo bei Ghom inspizieren. ... Iran: Experten vermuten bis zu 30 Atomanlagen Basler Zeitung Atom-Inspektoren im Iran eingetroffen news.search.ch Atomkonflikt mit Iran: Die Atominspektoren sind da! euronews ZEIT ONLINE - Reuters Deutschland (Pressemitteilung) - NZZ Online Alle 479 Artikel » |
Posted by on under hossein derakhshan, godaddy, metafilter, hoder, iran |
GoDaddy won't allow supporters of blogger Hossein Derakhshan on MetaFilter to renew hoder.com, which expires in three weeks. "Hoder," as he is known online, has been in prison in Iran for the past year. (via Cyrus Farivar) | UPDATE: looks like it's been successfully renewed now....Posted by on under capital tehran, technical glitch, student protests, internet service providers, slashdot, mth, web access, protesters, tactic, internet access, periods, iran, authorities |
RiffRafff writes "Iran is at it again, pre-emptively slowing or cutting Internet access before anticipated student protests." From the article: "Seeking to deny the protesters a chance to reassert their voice, authorities slowed Internet connections to a crawl in the capital, Tehran. For some periods on Sunday, Web access was completely shut down — a tactic that was also used before last month's demonstration. The government has not publicly acknowledged it is behind the outages, but Iran's Internet service providers say the problem is not on their end and is not a technical glitch."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted by on under political prisoner, drag on, facebook, tehran, authorities, iran, profiles |
In Iran, hundreds of men are presenting themselves as women in Hijab on their Facebook profiles to support Majid Tavakoli, a student activist who was arrested earlier this month. Authorities claim Tavakoli disguised himself as a woman to escape after delivering a speech in Tehran on Student Day....
