Since there is a lot of effort going on to help the Iranian protestors in publishing first-hand information from their country, several people outside of Iran have set up various proxies and tunnels to circumvent censorship.

Here is my own contribution to this: A anonymous SSH tunnel which provides access to both a TOR relay node (Socks5) and a HTTP proxy.

Protocol: SSH Server: uni.fladi.at Port: 22 Username: iran Password: iran

For OSX/Linux/BSD:

Make sure OpenSSH is installed and run in console: ssh -N -L 9100:localhost:9100 -L 3128:localhost:3128 iran@uni.fladi.at

For Windows:

Download the plink.exe program from the genuine source (RSA and DSA signatures also available there) or my mirror, save it either in C:\ or C:\Windows or any other folder on your hard-drive.

Run this in command prompt: plink -N -L 9100:localhost:9100 -L 3128:localhost:3128 iran@uni.fladi.at

On either platform you will get two tunnels after entering the password. You can access those tunnels through your local IP (127.0.0.1 or localhost) on your machine.

Now configure your Browser to use localhost:3128 as a HTTP proxy or localhost:9100 as a TOR-Node.

SSH will encrypt all the traffic until it reaches my Server here in Austria (hosted on a university research network with plenty of uplink) from where your requests will be forwarded to their destination.

The Squid-Proxy-Server I'm running does not log any request nor does the firewall so anonymous traffic is guaranteed. The TOR-Node on my server also does not log anything by design.