One Map, Three Explanations

This map plots the sources of Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on balatarin.com website around 14th February 2011, the time of major protests in Iran.
You will notice, there are no markers in Iran itself. The sources are spread around the globe in many different countries.
What can this mean? I can think of four possible answers:

1. The attacks came from regime supporters inside Iran cleverly masking their location as if they were in different countries.
2. The attacks were orchestrated by regime supporters who had taken control of computers in other countries.
3. The attacks came from regime supporters in countries outside of Iran
4. The attacks came from some other as yet unknown group or groups

This last possible explanation is a mystery that would be very difficult though not impossible to solve. Just to illustrate, one possible scenario would be if someone infiltrated the Anonymous operation and gave them balatarin.com as a target. The third possibility is really very worrying as it indicates that the regime has a widespread global network of support. The second option is also rather alarming, and everyone would be well advised to run some deep scans on their computer to be certain they have not been compromised by a rootkit or other malicious attack. So we had better hope that the first option is correct!

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