WikiLeaks website brought down in U.S. and Europe by 'powerful' cyber attack 'from China'

Daily Mail ^ | 1st December 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter

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The WikiLeaks website today said that it was under a forceful internet-based attack with the site inaccessible to users in U.S. and Europe. The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a Twitter message on that it is under a 'distributed denial of service attack,' a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites. WikiLeaks was also under attack on Sunday - but the latest assault - believed to come from China - appears to be more powerful.

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[Kackikat]

Thanks, I had forgotten that evidently.

I just heard Judge Napolitano on FoxNews to Shepard Smith that the ‘net neutrality’ the gov wants is similar to the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.

I said that on a thread about net neutrality, and was smashed and told I didn’t know what I was talking about, so that person AntiRepublicrat ??, or something like that must be spreading an untruth.

[Kackikat]

Thanks, I had forgotten that evidently.

I just heard Judge Napolitano on FoxNews to Shepard Smith that the ‘net neutrality’ the gov wants is similar to the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.

I said that on a thread about net neutrality, and was smashed and told I didn’t know what I was talking about, so that person AntiRepublicrat ??, or something like that must be spreading an untruth.