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The Nuclear Bunker Where Wikileaks Will Be Located
An anonymous reader writes "Engadget has photos of 'Pionen White Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which Wikileaks will locate some of its servers. It was excavated 98 feet underground, in a rock hill in the center of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War.' It looks like they hired the same interior designer who decorated Batman's lair."
Wikileaks are the bad actors. Hence the need to run to Sweden to hide.
At least, until they release some Swedish secrets.
They can't hope to locate themselves anywhere. They've made themselves extralegal in all jurisdictions. Like all the other "pirate" organizations through history, they will eventually have to find space that nobody owns but them.
As for how to defeat this thing, aside from cutting off its outside contact and obviating their mission, if you want to get inside you just wait for someone to go in, kidnap them, and use them as a hostage. The people inside will open up. They're hippie anarchists, not Navy Seals. So unless they're psychopathic (not counting that out), the prospect of watching another hippie anarchist get flensed will send them running for the security keypad. "Let us in or we dice your friend. And if you destroy the data, we'll dice both of you."
So they still have quite a bit to fear from the other bad actors who want their data.