美国《国防科技》网站2009年6月22日Kevin Coleman发表文章称：对于因特网在政治事务中发挥的巨大作用很少有人会争论，但最近伊朗的选举将这一作用提升到一个新的水平。在选举前，伊朗当局封锁了社会网络的网络，不让进入。反对党的支持者利用社会网络招募黑客，协调对总统内贾德的主要网站发动攻击。

主要社会网络网站是:
* Twitter
* MySpace
* Facebook
* BeDo
* Friendster
* Hi5
* LinkedIn (groups)
* Ning
* Classmates
* Reunion

选举前

反对派候选人及其支持者一直利用社会网络网站发布竞选信息和组织的竞选事件信息。.

选举期间

在激烈的选战中，社会网络网站被用来协调分析、报告将要发生的不正常事件，召集支持伊朗政权变化的支持者进行集会。事实上，甚至在网站上贴出了“伊朗选举网络战指南”供即将成为黑客分子的人员下载。

选举后

选举结果宣布后不久，政治黑客分子向内贾德政府的高价值网站发动了一系列网络攻击。伊朗反对派支持者协调了一系列的网络攻击，成功地阻止了亲内贾德的许多伊朗网站、总统网站和其他政府网站的进入。拒绝服务式（DDoS）攻击是成功的，来自约500000台计算机的流量将网站瘫痪。Twitter和Facebook被认为是主要攻击来源，计算机用户能从此下载加入政治黑客行列所需的软件。

总统内贾德果断采取措施，在一天内基本上关闭了伊朗的英特网。他的行动，封锁了人们进入反对党散发信息的网站，阻止了网络叛乱活动的协调。社会的超射程被收集、集中成为政治武器，而赋能技术就是英特网。许多人觉得难以相信500,000节点的DDoS攻击大军能够在没有事先计划的情况下那么快速地集结起来。一些人猜测有外部势力插手了选后网络攻击中使用的网络能力。建议攻击的巨大分布来源，在几个小时内全部聚集是令人难以置信的。

英特网在政治中的作用不断增加，伊朗选举中的事件是英特网能够并且将影响政治事件和选举的最新事例。有人将这些行动称为——基于市民的政治战。反对党通过使用社会网络的网站将集体影响力转化为政治武器。伊朗发生的事件代表了定将到来的黑暗摧毁者。无疑社会网络网战对政治的影响从现在已经开始了。（翻译：严美）

原文网址：http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004897.html

原文如下：

The Social Network as Cyber Weapon
-- Kevin Coleman
Few people would dispute the significant role the Internet plays in political affairs but the recent election in Iran took this role to a new level. Prior to the election, the Iranian authorities blocked access to the social networking web sites. Supporters of the opposition party used social networking sites to recruit hackers and coordinate highly targeted attacks focusing on key web sites of President Ahmadinejad.

Top Social Networking Sites:
* Twitter
* MySpace
* Facebook
* BeDo
* Friendster
* Hi5
* LinkedIn (groups)
* Ning
* Classmates
* Reunion

Before
Candidates and their supporters opposing President Ahmadinejad had been using the social networking sites to spread information as part of their election campaigns and organized events.

During
In the heated battle for the presidency, the social networking sites were used to coordinate analysis, and report abnormal events that were said to be taking place and to rally all those who were supporting a regime change in Iran. In fact there was even a "Cyberwar guide for Iran elections" posted for download by would-be hacktivists.

After
Shortly after the election results were announced, political hacktivists launched a series of cyber attacks targeting high value web site of the Ahmadinejad regime. The Iranian opposition supporters coordinated a series of cyber attacks that successfully managed to prevent access to many pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, plus the President's site and other government sites. The DDoS attacks were successful and sites were brought down by traffic from an estimated 500,000 computers. Twitter and Facebook are thought to be the primary sources where computer users could download the software necessary to join the ranks of the political hacktivists.

President Ahmadinejad took decisive steps and basically turned off the Internet in Iran for about an entire day. His action, blocked access to information being distributed by the opposition party and the coordination of the cyber revolt activities. The social outrange was collected, focused and targeted into a political weapon and the enabling technology was the Internet. Many find it hard to believe a 500,000 node DDoS attack army could be assembled that fast without prior planning. Some have speculated that outsiders may have had a hand in the rapid assembly of the cyber capabilities used in the post election cyber attacks. Given the massive distributed sources of attack, it is hard to believe this could have been pulled together in a few short hours.

The role of the Internet in politics has increased and the events in the Iranian election are the latest example of the power and influence the Internet can and will have to impact and influence political campaigns and elections. A few have termed these actions -- citizen-based political warfare. The opposition party turned their collective power of influence into a political weapon through the use of social networking sites. The events that took place in Iran represent a harbinger of what is sure to come. There is no doubt the implications social networking sites will have on politics from now on.

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