Wikileaks.org Successfully Taken Down (Again!) [12/03/10]

[Kludge]

"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."

Article by Mike Masnick of Techdirt.
Original Article Link: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101202/22322512099/wikileaks-says-its-site-has-been-killed.shtml

[FrankRep]

WikiLeaks only gets more attention every time it's attacked.

:p

[puppetmaster]

lets hope it means early release of bank docs

[tangent4ronpaul]

WikiLeaks only gets more attention every time it's attacked.

:p

Exactly!

Kind of like why the whole WoT is a TOTAL FAIL!

-t

[eOs]

Here's the status on EveryDNS.net's page:

EveryDNS.net Status

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.

[eOs]

wikileaks now available at

http://wikileaks.de/ http://wikileaks.fi/ http://wikileaks.nl/

[malkusm]

Activate Reston5

[Michael Landon]

wikileaks now available at

http://wikileaks.de/ http://wikileaks.fi/ http://wikileaks.nl/

Odd. As soon as I went to one of these sites, I lost my internet access. Just lost it again as I was about to post this. It seems weird to me.

- ML

[LatinsforPaul]

http://wikileaks.ch/

works good here...

[awake]

Chop it in two you fight two, chop it in four you fight four. The more you fight it the more it proliferates.

[GunnyFreedom]

Odd. As soon as I went to one of these sites, I lost my internet access. Just lost it again as I was about to post this. It seems weird to me.

- ML

My internet has been off and on badly for 2.5 weehs now

[oyarde]

Chop it in two you fight two, chop it in four you fight four. The more you fight it the more it proliferates.

I think so . This can be applied to foreign policy as well.

[pcosmar]

Odd. As soon as I went to one of these sites, I lost my internet access. Just lost it again as I was about to post this. It seems weird to me.

- ML
I get to all of those just fine.

And here,
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/12/152291.htm

WIKILEAKS
Wikileaks Will Make the Conduct of Diplomacy for a Period of Time More Difficult / U.S. Will Continue Diplomatic Outreach
A Particular Cable is Not a Statement of Policy
U.S. Government Values Vibrant Media/ Important to Development of Civil Society
WikiLeaks Not Media Organization

[squarepusher]

Activate Reston5

lmao. Killed one, created 100.

http://www.wikileaks.org/

[GunnyFreedom]

http://wikileaks.ch/ (http://wikileaks.ch/)

works good here...

wikileaks.ch seems to have no corresponding DNS entry from here

[pcosmar]

Please tell me no one here is using.

YouTube - The AOL Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ltR9AE75E)

[CAKochenash]

Chop it in two you fight two, chop it in four you fight four. The more you fight it the more it proliferates.

YouTube - The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Fantasia 1940 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-7Qar1lFjo)

In case you wish not to watch all 9 mins, Mickey gets his ass whooped in the end.

:D

[GunnyFreedom]

Please tell me no one here is using.

YouTube - The AOL Song

LMAO no, but RoadRunner/TimeWarner is awful close!

[Michael Landon]

I get to all of those just fine.



I got on them fine, but once I left them, I lost my internet access. It seems like everytime I go on some site that would be questionable in the eyes of the government I lose my access.

It has happened many times.

- ML

[reagle]

List of WikiLeaks.org mirrors
http://pastebin.com/2ASAUkR6

[rprprs]

http://wikileaks.ch/

works good here...

Yep, works great. And there's Ron right on their main page. Couldn't be working better than that! :D