From HackersWithoutBorders

Cyberaid guide for Iranian manifestations

(base copy/pasted from http://werebuild.eu/wiki/index.php/Iran_election#Cyberaid_guide_for_Iran_election )

The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter.

• Do NOT, ever(!), perform a ddos-attack against the Iranian government servers. The people need all the bandwith there is.

• Do NOT publish proxy IP's over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran. If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.

• Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.

• Keep your bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don't re-tweet impetuously, try to confirm information with reliable sources before re-tweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.

• Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHERAN. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become 'Iranians' it becomes much harder to find them.

• Don't blow any cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don't publish names or locations on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don't signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind.

Hackers Without Borders take no stand in the conflict held in Iran. Hackers Without Borders support the manifesters right to express their opinion, which for the time being is under attack, by the Iranian government. Hackers Without Borders support no one, and wish only that the humanitarian right to express an opinion without fear of repercussions will be respected in the country.

The time zone thing is wrong. Firstly, the correct time zone is GMT +4:30 (Iran has daylight savings time; use the intergoogles!) Secondly, time zone is not visible to other users anyway, it’s purely an interface setting.