Comments on: Is shutting down Iranian propaganda websites cyber-freedom fighting or cyber-terrorism?

By: Activists Launch Hack Attacks on Tehran Regime « CXWatchdog

Activists Launch Hack Attacks on Tehran Regime « CXWatchdog — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:05:31 +0000

[...] — hurting the very protesters they’re meant to assist. Michael Roston is concerned that “it helps to excuse the Iranian regime’s own cyberwarfare.” Text-messaging networks and key opposition websites mysteriously went dark just before the [...]

By: Iran hacker attack on Twitter shows risks of political cyberpranking - Michael Roston - Newsbroke - True/Slant

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:47:23 +0000

[...] reaches back to my warnings this summer when blogger activists were encouraging people to launch distributed denial of service attacks [...]

By: Michael Roston - Newsbroke - Crowing over the hollow victory of crashing some Iranian websites - True/Slant

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:45:20 +0000

[...] action (done by many others pseudonymously, anonymously, and otherwise, as I noted in this blog post) did victoriously take down a few websites. And what a hollow victory THAT [...]

By: The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: June 16, 2009

The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: June 16, 2009 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:08:42 +0000

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By: Activists launch cyberattacks on Iranian goverment websites / Waging Nonviolence

Activists launch cyberattacks on Iranian goverment websites / Waging Nonviolence — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:27:59 +0000

[...] hurting the very protesters they’re meant to assist. Michael Roston is concerned that “it helps to excuse the Iranian regime’s own cyberwarfare.” Text-messaging networks and key opposition websites mysteriously went dark just before the [...]

By: Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily

Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for June 16th - The zeitgeist daily — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:11:55 +0000

[...] Shutting down Iranian government websites is cyberwarfare — 8:28pm via Google [...]

By: Elecciones en Irán: Hacktivistas atacan al regimen en el ciberespacio | Pijamasurf

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:13:34 +0000

[...] embargo, algunos analistas Se preocupan que esto sirva de excusa para la propia guerra cibernética del regimen. Los mensajes de texto y algunos sitios de la oposición misteriosamente se desactivaron justo [...]

By: Iranian cyberattack crosses the line | PunditCountry

Iranian cyberattack crosses the line | PunditCountry — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:51:04 +0000

By: iskid2astop

iskid2astop — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:13:55 +0000

This is a tricky question. At what point do the “underdogs” become so powerful that the roles are reversed, and their actions become repressive, and exploiting?

I think both sides of this conflict are just using the tools and skills that they have right now. If either attack were without provocation, then that would be cyber-terrorism, but both actions were provoked in some way.
Fair is fair.