Posted on 12/02/2010 11:48:50 PM PST by speciallybland
This is definitely a "developing" story, but apparently the entire Wikileaks.org site has gone down again and the Wikileaks folks are claiming that the domain was "killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks." That's a bit cryptic and Wikileaks has not been above jumping to conclusions at times. It's unclear, for example, if it was just the company EveryDNS who did something on their own, or if the US government was involved. It could be as simple as the sort of pressure Senator Lieberman is applying on US companies.
Either way, it is a bit silly to think that taking down Wikileaks' website would actually do anything in this situation. The data that they're releasing is out there and plenty of people can easily find it. It won't take long for them to set up another website if they want to -- and while it may be a bit harder for people to find them, to date, the organization hasn't exactly had any problems getting everyone else to promote what they release for them. Whatever the reason is for taking the domain name offline, it's difficult to think it would be effective in stopping Wikileaks in any way. If anything, it just calls that much more attention to the organization.
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Should have been taken out months ago.
I hope where ever he is Julian Assange is quakeing in his loafers......
How convenient. Just in time to spare some big banks a lot of questions about their activities.
So far, all I’ve seen of Wikileaks has just been an embarrassment to politicians and bureaucrats. It has demonstrated what a bunch of incompetent bunglers we have in charge of the government.
Has anyone ever asked why a 22-year-old would be entrusted with so much secret information? But then, ever since Bill Clinton got top secret security clearance, it’s been all downhill.
DOS — works for me.
Now, we just need a Predator drone with Hellfire accessory to take this spy out.
It is legal to kill a spy under International law.
may the Russians serve him dinner or drink soon.
you think he’s the only one behind this? Kill him and we will never know.
Poor guy...
As long as he was a useful idiot for the Soros-puppet Democrats and Chomskiite liberals, attacking Republicans and Bush, he was a hero, free to roam the world doing what ever his perverted mind wanted.
Then, he DARES to attack and embarrass the DEMOCRATS, and hell itself is dropped upon him, almost like it was for Cindy Sheehan after she attacked Hillary.
The typical end for a useful liberal idiot, I’m afraid. Dissent is not tolerated when the Democrats are in charge
Welcome to EveryDNS.net — a project to provide DNS services to the Internet. Dyn Inc. (the people behind DynDNS.com - free DDNS, dynamic DNS, DNS hosting, domain registration, plus other goodies and the Dynect Platform - external managed DNS, traffic management, and the best anycast out there.
>> The data that they’re releasing is out there and plenty of people can easily find it.
Or really?
Try finding a picture of Laura Ingraham in a leopard pattern miniskirt... (not that I ever bothered looking for it)
sushi and sake
Soros ?
DynDNS is easy and reliable.
The typical end for a useful liberal idiot, I’m afraid. Dissent is not tolerated when the Democrats are in charge
Har! LOL! LMBO! You nailed it! Plus, he was about to release some stuff on the Russians and the Chinese.
Putin made a not so subtle . . . er . . . comment on the issue. I would not be surprised if the wikileakers shut down their own site.
Bet their little wikis are leaking in their their drawers.
All systems are functioning normally.
EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the wikileaks.org domain name until 10PM EST, December 2, 2010, when such services were terminated. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net network, this service was provided for free. The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy.
More specifically, the services were terminated for violation of the provision which states that "Member shall not interfere with another Member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services." The interference at issues arises from the fact that wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites.
Thus, last night, at approximately 10PM EST, December 1, 2010 a 24 hour termination notification email was sent to the email address associated with the wikileaks.org account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website. Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider.
>> “He’s Dead, Jim. Get his tricorder and get his wallet”
“Damn it Jim! I’m a doctor, not an Obama stooge.”
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