Tag Archives: Iran

Swift Access at the Cost of Swift Access: Diginotar

Stijnie Thuijs | 14 September 2011, 10:30 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

On the tenth of July 2011, the Dutch web security company Diginotar was hacked by (supposedly) a student from Iran. He was able to corrupt the so called SSL certificates and break into Gmail accounts and government websites. Nine days later, Diginotar noticed the infiltration in their system. The company claims to have responded according to security protocol. More…

Iranian Censorship of Women’s Online Magazines

Natalie Dixon | 15 November 2010, 7:37 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Although media censorship in Iran is a widely publicized fact, this research report seeks to establish a clearer picture of which women’s online consumer lifestyle titles Iranian web users are currently forbidden to view. This report was conducted using the University of Amsterdam Media Studies Department’s tool called Censorship Explorer. This tool allows users to input URLs and test them against known proxy servers around the world. For this research all available Iranian proxy servers listed in this tool were used although the number varied over the three days of testing in November 2010. The list of nineteen women’s consumer magazine URLs was compiled using Google.com as well as lists from international publishing houses and the researcher’s existing knowledge of the consumer lifestyle magazine market.

The Threefold Digital Divide

Pim van Bree | 20 October 2010, 11:52 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Digital Divide
The common gap in internet accessibility is mainly based on socioeconomic status, determined by skills and resources. The digital divide has often emerged along the familiar fault lines of social inequality: class, ethnicity, gender, age, and geographic location. Therefore, people from all socioeconomic backgrounds have to be taught or familiarize the skills needed to effectuate the potential…

Online Activism, Offline Passivism?

Fei An Tjan | 28 September 2010, 4:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Jyllands Posten Social media and Web 2.0 have radically changed the way we communicate with each other. Blogs and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter let us participate with each other in a whole new manner. People with the same interests and ideas from all over the world have the ability to connect with each other without the necessity of physical presence. Apart from that and in comparison to the other mass media, Web 2.0 applications enable us ‘citizens’ to engage in the public debate on a whole different level (Keren, 2010). Can we think of web 2.0, blogs and social networking sites as public spheres and how does this translate to our offline lives?

Blocked in Iran: Follow-up on Armenian Bloggers

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 7:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Using the data and proxies from the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, I did some additional checking and found http://www.havadaran.net/ and http://jomhoriyat.com/ also have been blocked, but accessible from Amsterdam. These URLs are found on the Mir Hossein Mousavi facebook website list in his profile (itself also blocked), and seem to be supporting…

Armenian Bloggers Confirm Top Websites Blocked in Iran

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 4:16 pm | 5 comments | tags: , ,

During the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, led by Prof. Richard Rogers of the University of Amsterdam, sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Cloob, MySpace, Twitter and the BBC were are confirmed to be blocked in Iran today. They report that:

It appears that the entire sites are inaccessible, according to research carried out at

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Message from Teheran

Tom Roes | 20 December 2006, 1:41 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

A happy Psiphon user from Teheran, Iran wrote the following:

Wow cool!

Dank je wel, ik ga het direct proberen. Dit kan me echt helpen. Oh ja mijn stiefbroer heeft een server in NL, die staat altijd aan. Zou het helpen als die daarop staat? Wat moet ik dan doen? Echt Bedankt!
PS laat het

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