WikiLeaks Under Fire

kan0r writes "The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire. The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the WikiLeaks documents that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from around the world. WikiLeaks alternate names remained available until Saturday, when there seems to have been a heavy DDoS attack and a fire at the ISP. The documents in question are still available on other WikiLeaks sites, such as wikileaks.be, and are also mirrored on Cryptome. Details of the court documents have also been made available."

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Anti-Conspiracy Theorists

[Anonymous Coward]

Somewhere on the blogosphere or the net SOMEONE will say that these are just coincidences.

DDOS, fire, lawsuit. All a coincidence.

Just like the numerous internet cable cuts. All a coincidence.

Israeli art students celebrating the terrorist strike on the world trade centers minutes after the crash. Just a co-inky dink.

Anyone who says otherwise is a conspiracy theorist.

The thing that is funny is that the majority of those persons who claim that these are all coincidences are also the same persons who are of a right-leaning bent, and also like themselves a bit of the ol' good time gospel.

So on the one hand, you have crazy wingnut pundits claiming that any surreptitious event, any secretive group, anything that just doesn't add up, is met with screams of "nothing to see here, move along". These are also the same persons who claim that there is a "grand watchmaker" and that the earth must be intelligently designed, or that the Iraqis had WMD based on the poorest of evidence.

Re:Those "citizen groups" are right

[bluefoxlucid]

There's a lot of classified stuff that probably would be in our better interest to know. In fact, it's probably a great idea for every American and American ally to know everything marked TOP SECRET in the US Government. ...Unfortunately, you CAN NOT distribute that information in ANY WAY without the risk of having it fall into enemy hands, which is bad. It leaks even as-is; if this stuff was common knowledge, it'd be common knowledge everywhere. Anyone wanting to pull anything-- terrorist attack, pre-emptive war, whatever-- would have all the intelligence they need.

While it'd be great for us to be able to comment openly on our government's secret inner workings and raise education systems around it, it'd leave us totally defenseless. With perfect knowledge of the target's tactics, weaponry, and current military positions, you can stage a perfect attack and basically level their military resources with minimal effort. Do you want that to be the US? There wouldn't be planes hitting the twin towers, it'd just be a 5 hour long take-over of the US government and then we'd all be under rule of some batshit crazy cult that would probably just kill everyone that didn't swear allegiance to them.

Shit's classified for a reason. Don't go releasing secrets because you think they shouldn't be secret, you're just going to fuck people over.