Useful links and other info for those who want to help the Iranian dissidents. Unconfirmed, but rampant online are these hints:

Change the time and date on your computer’s time clock in Windows to Tehran time. This tip (unconfirmed but repeated by users inside Twitter) is supposed to throw off the Iranian gov’t, which is going after in-country Tweeters and other dissidents with a vengeance.

The more technologically savvy can parse details from the following ComputerWorld.com article: I do not endorse or recommend launching DDOS (electronic denial of service attacks) on official Iranian gov’t websites, nor do I understand how in the f— it works in the first place, but some people around the world are taking matters into their own hands. This action is a response to the Iranian govt’s shutting down of cell phone networks, SMS and other methods of communication. Unrest In Iran, The Tech Side Of The Story

Here’s a link to a blog written by a network security expert. Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites

DDos attacks might very well be construed as a crime by the US Federal Gov’t, and I highly don’t recommend launching your own attacks. If you’re smart enough to understand all this gobbledygook (and thank God, I am not, or I’d probably be in there committing electronic mayhem), then have at it: just be aware that there may be legal consequences for your activism.

For those with a Twitter account, log in and do a search, and then you can sign up to be on the notification list to support the international journalists, reporters, and the Iranian dissidents, all of whom are risking their lives to report the news as it happens. The account names aren’t listed here because of reprisal attacks that have been launched against those inside Iran who are reporting the news back out to the world via Twitter.