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Wordpress.com: Filtering, the sneaky way

Kamangir | July 27, 2008 | Category Blogging, Features, Iran

Wordpress.com, although being a very popular blogging service, is under attack by the filtering system in Iran.

The filtering system generally targets a whole website. The issue of wordpress.com, however, is a bit different. In fact, rather than filtering the blogs, the ssl-enabled control panels are being filtered. This inhibits the users from updating their blogs and, according to persianweblog.ir, this measure has resulted in a sheer decline in the rate of updates of Persian blogs which are hosted on wordpress.com.

As a countermeasure, Persian users of wordpress.com have started using anti-filter tools and proxies for accessing the control panels of their blogs. Due to the nature of these tools, this endangers the privacy and security of these bloggers (because proxies use identical IP addresses for different users, thus confusing security protocols and enabling hackers to gain access to restricted sources, including the control panel of a blog).

Reader's Comments

Roman Kalik | July 27th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Mhm. Man-in-the-middle becomes a lot easier. Does Wordpress use SSL v3, at least? That *should* prevent the vast majority of security protocol related issues, as the client IP is far from being the most important aspect of the game, but even that won’t protect against bad Wordpress coding and the possible lack of encryption and other security when it comes to this or that part of it…
Fariborz Shamshiri | July 28th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Islamic Iran is making excessive use of the death penalty to spread fear among people mostly dissidents and activists. Although Iranian officials insist death penalty is an effective deterrent but in fact experience in past 29 years proved that death penalty is not an effective way to prevent crimes.

Also Iran officials claim that death penalty is carried out only after an exhaustive judicial process which doesn’t have any meaning while suspect doesn’t go through a fair trial. Police force in Iran torture suspects to confess to crime whether they have done it or not and their confession under torture is a main argument that judges take into consideration to sentence suspects to death. Sadly most of judges are illiterate and they don’t have any knowledge about law but sharia. They do careless about suspect rights from the beginning of trial to the end.

Under above circumstances all of these sentences are against international laws and Iran is in violation of them. (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

We urge Islamic Republic of Iran’s officials bring an immediate end to these executions.

Please support above cause to Stop Execution in Iran. Thanks.

http://stop.torturing.us/2008/07/stop-executions.html
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Carlos | July 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I posted this in my blog.
Gabriel... | July 28th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Whatever happens don’t expect any support from the company… WordPress users in Turkey have had their blogs banned for over a year and as far as anyone can tell WordPress has yet to hire a lawyer or attempt to come up with a patch of some kind.
Pedro L. Ribeiro | July 29th, 2008 at 6:58 am
And the responsable for that filtering system are iranian government services? WordPress does not contest that action?