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WikiLeaks Under Fire

Posted by Soulskill on from the also-possibly-on-fire dept.

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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  1. Information wants to be free! by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's why you pay good money to hunt it down and kill it.

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    Kwisatz Haderach
    Sell the spice to CHOAM
    This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
  2. Re:Restraining order? by somersault · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How is that insightful? o_o

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    which is totally what she said
  3. Re:Anti-Conspiracy Theorists by hostyle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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    Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
  4. Re:Must be doing someting right... by lekikui · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, accidentally modded this redundant. Posting to clear it

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    "Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics." - L. Peter Deutsch
  5. Re:This is why.... by trytoguess · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh ya install a program that requires you to manually find and connect to people.... While we're at it lets also wonder why Linux isn't the dominating OS, and why people just stop fighting.