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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."

2 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. /.ing it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    brilliant, /.ing is sure to help with their bandwidth problems

  2. Yes, and being on the front page of Slashdot... by sdo1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, and being on the front page of Slashdot is a very effective way to remedy the situation.

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