If the contested election in Iran has taught us anything it’s that no matter how much any government thinks they may have cut off their people from accessing the outside world, they will always find a way around it.

While there is really not much a technology blog can say about the actual election, we can certainly say it was interesting that even though the country was supposedly blacked out communications wise, all sorts of Internet communication was still getting out.  The most amusing part of the weekend was the constantly circulating list of IP proxy addresses on Twitter that people inside of the country could use to do an end run around the blocking the country was attempting.  (although I will say if the person was already blocked, how would they see the list of proxies?)

While you can never be sure how honest the reports reportedly coming out of the country are, it was still a fascinating look in to technology rising to the occasion of attempting to help a people who belieed they had been wronged.  And kudos to Twitter who had an announced down time for Monday night/Tuesday morning for opting to cancel it to leave the lines of communication open for those who are using their serice during this event.