British software used to crash Iranian websites
A BLIGHTY web designer has noticed that an application he developed is being used by members if the Green revolution in Iran.
Ryan Kelly told Channel Four News he had developed www.pagereboot.com to automatically refresh websites such as Ebay, but said Iranians had emailed him saying they were using it to mount distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks on that country's official government websites.
He noticed that he was suddenly getting large numbers of download requests, then he started received emails from grateful Iranians saying they were using the application to attack government websites and bring them down.
There have been protests, as well as a web campaign, apparently, against Iran's government after the results of Friday's presidential election were announced, amid complaints of vote rigging.
Kelly took down the website because it could not handle the traffic, but after an online appeal for donations to cover the increased costs, he was able to make it available again. µ
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So a tool you wrote for a supposedly benign purpose is now being used as what a lot of Govt. analysts would call, a 'hacking tool'?
I think I would have kept very quiet about that. I'm sure this chap will get a visit from the men in suits very soon.
If you call a couple of lines of javaScript an application then I'm a walking, talking software warehouse.
"Union Jack behind green revolution"
It's the Union Flag and that's only called the Union Jack when at sea, are you ?
you wont get a visit from men in suits if you attack an iranian server... right now i think they're more worried about the rallys on the streets
@jason
So are car manufactures liable because most bank robbers use cars to escape?
Or are shoe manufacturers liable because most serial killers wear shoes?
For that matter, what about the companies that make the bombs that get dropped on civilians by the various governments of the world?
The wiki is quite an interesting read on this particular point.
Channel 4 deserve this more than SMH:
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/briton+caught+up+in+iran+internet+wars/3215337
It is an overseas affair so it may be the Union Jack, ain't?
May be your complain is just because you love to be around seamen..
Oh the brits are at it again... just like how khomeini was half british, and the bbc helped get him into power.