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<p>Thanks all, good advice, I've passed on.</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/2026 21:28, Tim Dobson wrote:<br>
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<div>I'd probably avoid emailing them for the moment. <br>
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I'm less sure you'll get them in trouble, and more worried
that whatever you email may be outdated by the time it arrives
- wait til there's more clarity, and then raise comms by
asking how they're doing (which is a very neutral question and
should be answerable easily even if they're worried about
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<div>I hope your friends come through this fine.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 21:22,
Patrice Riemens <<a href="mailto:patrice@puscii.nl"
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Hi All,<br>
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As far as I can judge from here (Rural SW France ;-), it's
going to be a tough job to contact yr friends in teheran in
the present circumstances. Won't surely work over gmail. The
Guardian had a good explainer on how the blackout works - it
appears to be very precise and even Musk's Starling is, at
least partially blocked - using Russian technology form the
war in Ukraine. yet some messgs seem to filter thru. I'd think
a relay of friends of friends who know a friend who manages to
... etc. Pb is that you need to have contact with yr friends
to be able to cantact the friend of a friend who etc ... Not
easy, but you might have luck, or tough luck if yr queries
fall in the wrong hands. <br>
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Now pray the ugly theocracy falls sooner rater than later. It
will.<br>
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Subject: [HacktionLab] Emailing under internet blackout<br>
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A question came up about emailing to Iran: "I have some
contacts in <br>
Tehran who are anti-authoritarian educators I was supposed to
be <br>
recording a presentation for them to show at their seminar
series (I've <br>
done this for them before) - next week. I'm not sure what to
do now, I'm <br>
assuming if I email them [they on gmail] I won't get through.
Big/stupid <br>
ask - Does anyone tecchy know how an internet blackout is
likely to <br>
work? I.e. I'm not sure whether to email my contact, could it
be <br>
intercepted and get him in trouble?"<br>
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I didn't have conclusive answers. Any thoughts? I don't know
exactly how <br>
sensitive the comms are and I gather encrypted comms hasn't
been set up.<br>
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b<br>
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