Posted on 12/03/2010 10:30:22 AM PST by SmithL
LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) --
WikiLeaks struggled to stay online Friday as corporations and governments moved to cut its access to the Internet, a potentially crippling blow for an organization dedicated to releasing secret information via the web.
Legal pressure increased on the site's founder, Julian Assange, after Swedish authorities cleared an obstacle to his arrest by adding information to a European arrest warrant in response to procedural questions from British officials, who had put his possible arrest on hold for more than a day.
Assange's lawyer said that he is in the U.K. but she hadn't received a warrant by Friday afternoon.
Assange said that his arrest would do nothing to halt the flow of American diplomatic cables being released b
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Who is conducting the attacks and why? Is it the American intelligence community to affect some closure of leaked secrets? The Russians trying to cover their tails and prevent more leaks? The Chicoms trying to make themselves look good?
Here's a few points to consider. Make of them what you will.
- The "hacker" community has held a convention named "NextHope" in which the whistleblower who pulled the rug under the spy Manning was roundly condemned.
- The global "security" community sent their people to the convention, channeling funds to it.
- Condemning the whistleblower, they are presumably working for Manning.
- The attackers are from the hacker community.
Something is very off here.
I’ve had my ear to the ground in the security world as of late and heard rumblings from NextHope about this. I didn’t realize they were related. Thank you for the info. This gives me something to look into.
That’s Assange you smell..
Who is answered in the first sentence of the article posted:
"WikiLeaks struggled to stay online Friday as corporations and governments moved to cut its access to the Internet..."
Why couldn't be more obvious.
(I told her I posted something that she sent me on Twitter) She sure was happy that I really didn't.
Corporations and governments are not conducting the attacks. They might be bankrolling them or using intelligence to perform them, but they’re not the actual aggressors here.
I agree that the why is pretty obvious, but the motive for shutting this down is unclear to me. This benefits the leftists who are trying to bring about a new world order.
And WikiLeaks is still online?
Forget McAfee, Norton, Trend Micro and Kaspersky. I want WikiLeaks to handle my Internet security. :-)
The server farm that hosts the source Wikileaks site and files should be a smoking hole in the ground.
The U.S. President and Congress should declare the Wikileaks site’s display of U.S. documents and act of war. Then we should physically bomb the primary site.
The twerp who stole the documents should already have been executed.
Yeah... he’s a pansy-waisted metrosexual!
leftist hacks for the most part, and some from the right.
“corporations”, I suppose, are Google, Amazon, GoDaddy, etc who can be destroyed by Obama/Boehner if the dont cooperate; and GE/Bank of America, etc, who will soon be destroyed when memos of secret deals are released.
They better worry about keeping their owner alive now that the Russians are pissed.
Why do you say this? Surely you realize that secrecy is a double edged sword? It may be necessary to temporarily protect a strategy or plan, but over the long run, or after the fact there should be no issue with releasing the documents and records. Secrets kept too long benefit only those keeping the secrets and encourage the culture of corruption and power.
Some claim the person that leaked the documents was an angry homosexual. Very interesting. Puts “Don't ask, Don't tell” in a new light.
The banks probably.
No one cares about the diplomatic cables. But when Assange said he has damning info on a major American bank...people start to pay attention.
Already Bank of America is lawyering up. God only knows what illegal crap they’ve gotten themselves into.
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