[dispense]

If you would like me to, I can set up a Tor bridge for you. Unfortunately, YCombinator doesn't have a private messaging system, so we'll have to figure out a way to communicate the details securely. Cryptocat is blocked. If you're familiar with GPG, we could use that right here. IRC is possible too. Email is not safe.

I would not recommend you to do a mass censorship scan from your own IP. It's a given that one or more of the top 100,000 sites triggers some kind of flag, apart from the fact that such activity itself may mark you as a person of interest.

Another thing to consider is that the government can likely link your YCombinator account to you because there are few YCombinator users in Iran, and from that subset, only a small number (maybe 1) matches your posting timestamps. I'm of course assuming that they keep such traffic logs. Syria's surveillance system did/does.

[BugBrother]

I'm not going to support breaking security, but it seems like it would make it hard to ID dissidents if Windows viruses sometimes accessed random sensitive DNS addresses (I assume things like Danish cartoons, democracy/atheist information, how to change religion, etc). Maybe only if in Iran or Saudi Arabia.

Something similar from China, but with a different hotlist.