'Hacktivists' take up Iran fight as streets quiet: Via on Yahoo! News.

A sharp clampdown by Iranian authorities may have quelled street protests, but the fight goes on in cyberspace.

Groups of "hacktivists" — Web hackers demanding Internet freedom — say they are targeting Web pages of Iran's leadership in response to the regime's muzzling of blogs, news outlets and other sites.

It's unclear how much the wired warriors have disrupted official Iranian sites. Attempts by The Associated Press to access sites for state news organizations, including the Islamic Republic News Agency and Fars, were unsuccessful — with a message saying the links were "broken."
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