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Everyone please consider taking the following steps to support the people of Iran:

 

1. Show your support by changing your profile picture on Twitter to the color green by clicking Settings >Design>Change Design Colors>Background>009933. (This may seem trivial, but Iranians have said every bit of support matters in keeping them going)

 

2. Help conceal Iranian activists who are on Twitter from the secret police by changing your location to Tehran, Iran and your timezone to Tehran.

 

3. Set up proxy servers to help ensure that Iranians can stay connected to the outside world-

http://extrafuture.com/2009/06/15/how-to-set-up-an-anonymous-proxy-for-iranians-using-squid-on-mac-os-x/

or http://blog.austinheap.com/2009/06/15/how-to-setup-a-proxy-for-iran-citizens-for-windows/

REMEMBER … These instructions are for you to do to your machine. Also, the twitter channel is now considered insecure, you’ll last longer if you email your IP to the guy handling this (don’t twitter it).

What’s going on here is proxy servers are being set up on US machines. Once a (squid) proxy server is running on a machine its location must be revealed to interdicted Iranians. A machine’s location is its IP address. The delegation of proxy IPs to Iranians is handled by a contact with a secure communication channel – public distribution of IPs can be monitored by the Iranians closing channels and so quickly nullified.

 

4. Encourage the President to send a subtle and plausibly deniable sign of support to the Iranian protesters by wearing a simple green tie at some point during the week. Do this by tweeting:

 

Dear @BarackObama Mr. President, please wear green ties this week in support of the Iranian people #weargreen #iranelection #iranelections

 

Of course, the more people who know about the #iranelection Twitter feed, who see the resources available at this group, and who take these steps, the better. So, please consider inviting your friends to this group.

 

Tags: election, green movement, iran