It looks like it’s more than just the people of Iran who are up in arms. I’ve been surfing twitter for the past hour and have discovered an interesting mod-mentality trend going on.

It seems that people are actively spreading the word to use a service called pagereboot.com. The service is simple: Supply a url and a timer on which to refresh that url. You leave the service open in your browser and it automatically refreshes that site, thus overwhelming the web server so much that it takes down the site.

The movement on twitter has successfully taken down the official website of Ali Khamenei and the official blog of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It seems like Iran has pissed off a lot of people.

With a service so simple to create and use, and the movement of thousands of people on the internet, Cyber-Warfare is easier to implement and execute than normal previous forms of warfare. What does this mean for the future of the world?

Tags: cyber-warfare, election, iran, iranElection, riots, twitter

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