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Huge Interest Brings Wikileaks Offline

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yet-drudge-still-stands dept.

DragonFire1024 writes "Wikinews.org — The Wikileaks website, which publishes sensitive and censored material submitted by anonymous contributors, has experienced unprecedented levels of Internet traffic today through public interest. This interest has caused the website's servers to be unable to meet the enormous demand of over 164 gigabytes of download traffic within twenty-four hours, leading the site to be temporarily inaccessible."

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  1. rubbing salt in the wound by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    This interest has caused the website's servers to be unable to meet the enormous demand of over 164 gigabytes of download traffic within twenty-four hours, leading the site to be temporarily inaccessible." And so you post the story to slashdot with a link to the site in the summary. Why don't you give 'em papercut and pour lemon juice in, too?
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  2. Must be the thethans... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 4, Funny

    It must be the operating thethans(TM) of the church of $cientology® who DDOSed it following the "leak" of their "holy" (as in "full of holes") "scriptures"...

  3. Huge Interest by garett_spencley · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those damned bankers will get you every time. You really have to go over your loan agreements and read all the fine print carefully.

    R.I.P Wikileaks :(

    May you pay off your debt and rise once again.

  4. Re:Not offline? by Daimanta · · Score: 2, Funny

    And on the same hour it gets back up again, people post a link in a /. article to the site. Way to go!

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  5. I know who it was... by blake1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tom Cruise is so pissed right now.. sitting at home with 100 IE windows open hitting Refresh All Tabs.

  6. Big news by buchner.johannes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wikileaks is offline ... let's all go there to see if it is really offline :-|

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  7. Re:Conspiracy theorys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, you're all wrong.

    Notice that wikileaks is up right now? Wikileaks hasn't even gone down yet. Taco is attempting to ddos the wikileaks servers by conjuring up the ./ effect.

    It's obvious that he's being pressured by the CIA to bring down the servers in order to stop the proliferation of leaked patent documents concerning the atomic bomb.