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Bank Julius Baer Issues Statement On WikiLeaks

Posted by kdawson on from the 11-days-to-say-very-little dept.

dtwood writes "The bank that got WikiLeaks.org erased from DNS finally hired a PR agency and issued a press release filled with half truths and non-statements. Tynan on Tech has it, along with some brief commentary. Worth a look."

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  1. Frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Frist Psot!

    Oh yeah, damn censorship. They will mod me down too I bet.

    1. Re:Frist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Heh, I was right.

  2. I read about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is a very interesting article on this site. Very useful.

  3. You fail. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or like that time when the American's in Iraq were claiming they were winning.

    Apparently your educational professionals have FAILED you by teaching INCORRECT grammar. Come back tomorrow, because today you COMPLETELY FAILED your humor and your english.

    "If you want it to be possessive, it's just I-T-S, but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's I-T-apostrophe-S. Scalawag." - Strong Bad
  4. Criminal damage to the internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone is focussing on the alleged crimes of the bank, the whistleblower and the Wikileaks organisation, but this raises some far more disturbing questions in my mind.

    How did the DNS records of a legitimately registered and administrated organisation get unilaterally wiped within a few hours?

    Surely the bank employed some nefarious hackery to achieve this goal?

    Where is the due process, review, investigation? Where are the requests and warning letters from ISPs and administrative bodies? What is the role of ICANN and the domain registrars in this?

    Messing with DNS records is a VERY serious business, as the Pakistani government recently proved so nicely. It is the equivelent of finding someone you accuse of theft and demolishing their house, and possibly their neighbors house too, before even going to talk to the police. This is an electronic version of punative criminal damage, or as close to that legal description description as you could reasonably hope to get. Regardless of the merits of the case we should be focussing on the actions of the bank, after the leak, and separately from any issues about the rights and wrongs of anything else.