There are few hackers here. And most soldiers are ordinary people running on social media. So when, BreakingTweets reported CNN was quoting the Iranian Government as saying that the “West is engaged in a Cyber War against Iran,” it does beg that question: “Are we engaged in Cyber War?”

Go around the Interwebs and Boing Boing has a CyberWar guide:

“Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuosly, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.”

You can look at Survival and Evasion Guide (declassified information) in PDF is available here.

We were imaging a future cyber war with hackers behind both lines, crisscrossing server lines and attempting to read command and control. I don’t think anyone has imagined people much less ordinary, non-hacking people volunteering to be soldiers in a cyberwar,.

This is where: Anonymous Iran is:

How-to surf securely and avoid censorship: http://torir.org

This forum aims to be a secure and reliable way of communication for Iranians and friends. Use it to discuss what is happening in Iran. Post in the forum either anonymously as a guest, as a registered user, or login with your facebook-account. We are not a government agency, nor are we Iranian. We are simply the internet and we believe in free speech. Read here for more: http://iran.whyweprotest.net/keeping-your-anonymity-iran/29-people-thinking-iranian-government-site.html

This forum is backed by thepiratebay.org, Anonymous, and numerous other internet-friendly forces.

In a real war there are strategic and tactical objectives to deem a war, a success. If this is war, then new elections for the Iranian people would be enough. The way things are going, we may be seeing the first revolution that the Internet has purposely been used and the Iranian people get a fair, impartial and just Ayatollah.

If this is cyber war, will we see this like again or will governments be smarter next time around?

And man, Twitter has been awesome. It has been in China during the quake. It has been there for #bookblockade, #conass. It has been there for Obama. Now this is how Twitters wage a #hashtag war.

Forgive my pirating this*:

This is our world now… the world of twitter, facebook and youtube, powered by the electron and the switch, the beauty of the bandwidth. We make use of these services because they are dirt-cheap and simple. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias. You wage wars, you murder, cheat and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good. One thing for sure, you may stop an individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.

Oh, one more thing, Dear Bill Stone: don’t sell Twitter.

UPDATED: I forgot to mention that the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Tehran is using Deep Packet Inspection, to monitor their Internet.

UPDATE 2: I got the whole cyber war thing via a RT from @ellisera on twitter.

UPDATE 3: i added it, after my post.

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