Cyber Wars In Iran

Recently there was a conference in Tehran about the 8 month cyber-warfare against opposition websites .
The following link shows what discussed at this conference .

What I recieved from the issues in this conffeernce is that Iranian government are using the young and smart software engineers to work as hackers and also to find the internal hackers and protect the government cyber space .
What they did from 2005 till now are amazing . If u have a look at link that I mentioned you will find that they are totally strong , they attacked to several huge websites like NASA and also they discovered internal hackers who were responsible for cyber-theft of five million dollars from the banks.
In one point of view it would be great because people will be be sure that the cyber space is secure an they can do all transactions online . But in another point of view it can be an activity against human right in Iran to ignore all disagreement against the government.

The new Iran internet law is suspicious !!!

First lets have a look at these news :

Iran has passed a new internet law that experts fear will make information on internet users more readily available to the authorities.

Press TV, a news channel funded by the Iranian government, said on Monday that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's president, has issued an order for the implementation of the law.

According to Press TV, the cyber law would provide internet users with "more security", as internet service providers are required to save all data sent and received by their clients for at least three months.

But critics of the legislation say the stored data would enable the authorities to monitor internet users, including anonymous bloggers opposed to the regime in the Islamic republic.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/07/2009720132832678525.html

The new Internet law seems to be a tool for creating more security for internet users , but who can believe that government suddenly mentioned that security of websites and blogs are not satisfiable and they have to think about that ?

Some experts believe that this new law can be a tool for monitoring the internet users to put more limitation on that , as the law says that information must keep for 3 month after the data sent or received by the internet clients to the internet service providers .

Internet proxy users in Iran

Using the internet proxy is increasing day by day through the internet users in Iran , internet censorship is the main reason behind that specially after the election , even people in Iran cannot get connected to the Facebook , It's because of the policy that Facebook has , it allows to every one to does any activity through the Facebook . One of these activities is political activities that Iranian did during the election and after that .

Following link shows 2 diagrams that explain the increasing of using the proxy from one of servers before and after the election .

http://www.how-to-hide-ip.info/2009/07/01/internet-users-in-iran-use-tor-to-circumvent-censorship/

Internet censorship in Iran

According to the latest news near 20 million people in Iran are using internet and also Iran has the 2nd highest internet users in middle east . At first it was so easy to connect to all websites and use the information that were needed .

After election in Iran specially at Khatami's election and the 2nd of khordad reform movement some bloggers started to use the internet as a weapon to express their ideas . But the government couldn't stand this situation and started to block the websites , web loges and put limitation on using internet .

This situation got worst in Ahmadi nezhad election specially in second election .

Manybloggers, online activities , and technical staff have faced jail terms, harassment and abuse.

Recently, the Iran government required all Iranians to register their web sites in Ministry of art and culture. They also plan to filter all other websites up to 2012 .

Where is privacy ? According to what we have learned in cyberlaw no body can not stop you from what you believe and say , till the time that it's not against the humanity .

This censorship not only makes lots of troubles through the using internet and scientific researches but also is a symbol of breaking the human rights .

I hope one day we see the freedom in all layers of Iranian society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou-d4JRGVg8

Internet Filtering in Iran

As I was searching through the internet I found a case study about Internet filtering in Iran . It's so interesting , only in one year so many websites , blogs and IDs got blocked .
This research shows how Iranian government are blocking websites to protect themselves from protests and complains .
In this situation how we can expect people to follow the internet and cyber laws when the government are breaking international laws about the internet users' rights ?
Following line shows the research that I mentioned above , have a look at this link .
http://opennet.net/studies/iran

Electronic commerce Law in Iran

According to my study about business and commerce law in Iran I found that this part of internet law is more important in governments point of view . At least we have a well edited law draft for international trading through internet . Although it's not perfect yet but it can be a good step to reach to the higher steps of cyberlaw in my country .

Following link will give you an overview of electronic commerce law in Iran .

http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=5923

I am a genius not a thief!

28 years old Keyvan is a computer engineer who has educated abroad. He got arrested by the security guard of Iran 1n 9^th August 2010.

The reason behind his arrestment is that he accessed to bank security system and he transferred couple of million Tomans to his personal account.

Few days ago he contacted the Bank and said the security system of the bank got many problems and it’s easy to access, but the people in the bank thought that he is making a joke and didn’t take him seriously.

Therefore he decided to transfer the money to his personal account to prove them that the system is weak and the bank realized he transferred the money back to the Bank.

To defense himself at the curt he said: I never attended to steal something from the bank; I just wanted to say that I am a genius.

Also he did access to several government websites and warned them that your security system also got some problems

Researches for this person is still going on .and according to some sources its possible that the security administration use him as a consultant.