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DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing
tetrahedrassface writes "According to the Twitter feed for Wikileaks, the attack on the controversial site is increasing and is now at 10 Gigabits per second. In light of the recent release of highly sensitive documents and calls by many lawmakers around the world to swiftly find, extradite, and try suspected rapist Julius Assange for breaches of national security, one nation, Ecuador, has offered asylum."
Ecuador ranks a whooping 101 on the press freedom index, with an annually deteriorating index value. I'm not quite convinced it's the best country to exile to for people publishing inconveniant documents.
Its been done already. The files were placed on pirate bay and encrypted. Its a clever backup.
Theres a pattern in DDOS traffic.
http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/409/
Hivemind harvest in progress..
Here is the Proof
3. (S) The Baku businessman is a UK-educated engineer from a
prominent Pre-Revolution Isfahan family, and formerly owned a
large factory in Iran. He is a former national fencing
champion of Iran. former President of the Iran Fencing
Association, and Vice-President of an Azerbaijan sports
association. He has been based in Baku for more than ten
years, working primarily as a sub-contractor to BP and the
Cape Industrial Services company. While his oil services
company includes an insulation division that may be in
competition with INSULTEC, source has provided "inside"
information on many other Iranian issues (including
comprehensive data on the status of new Iranian oil refinery
construction) that does not relate to his private interests
in any way.
4. (S) Note: A quick google check revealed several companies
with the name INSULTEC in the title - these may or not be
affiliated. Based on the information provided by source
(currently in Iran, where he frequently travels), one
possible candidate could be "INSULTEC Chitral Ltd." End
Note.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09BAKU179.html
You can thank Julian Assange for this.
Even in a normal case, that really is presuming guilt. In this case, where it looks like it isn't even a rape by classic measures, it's more dubious.
As far as I can tell, both ladies had voluntary sex and then later, based on additional facts, decided they were raped. As far as I can tell, no one has alleged Assange forcibly had sex with them while they were saying "no".
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
If you have enough time to get under a desk after you see the flash, you are on the outskirts, so it makes good sense to attempt to do so.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Just read this:
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09BAKU179.html
Intelligence sources are being put at risk by these leaks. Julian Assange claims to care about civilians but he leaks documents that can get people killed? Why? To solve what?
The world is not made safer. Nothing in these cables are worth the loss of civilian life. These cables don't prevent a war with Iran or North Korea, they make war much more likely.
I think you mean, "[your interest is] piqued."
Those things are widely-known facts. Ever heard of Guantanamo bay? Check the previous Wikileaks releases for torture accounts, which are now being investigated by the UN.
Post as AC? Are you really THAT afraid of your government?
Go Equador.
I'm pretty sure you are alone. Most people would spell it Ecuador.
FBI assassinating American citizens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Deaths due to torture
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/06/30/accountability
Extra-judicial assassinations (not including daily drone bombings)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html
Of course, no one really knows what The Agency is doing right now. What is known is that the secret prisons still exist, and that the legal process of "extraordinary rendition", known to the rest of the world as kidnapping, still occurs. Our terrorism suspects are regularly flown to dictatorships like Egypt and tortured with our approval.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States
The first attack took down the servers and kept them down until wikileaks upgraded to Amazons Cloud hosting. I'm not sure if any hacker has ever taken down one of the behemoth cloud hosting networks so this should be a good test.
Has he broken any laws you can name...
Most likely the Espionage Act of 1917. Not judging the merits of the case, but that's what immediately comes to mind.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Little talked-about fact: Hiroshima was targeted to maximize civilian casualties. Our government said it was to take out factories, but we intentionally aimed at civilians, killing hundreds of thousands of noncombatants. It was not a new tactic -- before then, we aimed at civilians with firebombs. Terrorism is only terrorism when non-state actors do it, I guess! Yes, I know I'm off-topic.
Currently hooked on AMP
Ecuador ranks a whooping 101 on the press freedom index, with an annually deteriorating index value. I'm not quite convinced it's the best country to exile to for people publishing inconveniant documents.
The compilers of that "press freedom index" is Reporters Without Borders. RWB are primarily funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy which was founded during the Reagan administration to channel funds to organizations abroad that would support US foreign policy. Sometimes this funding is direct, sometimes it is conducted through the international arms of the US Democratic Party or Republican Party.
I would consider that the "US State Dept Press Freedom Index".
Id be especially interested in the "currently torturing someone to death"... is that rhetoric, or should you be posting AC?
You really don't know about any of the examples?
Wow, our media has utterly failed us.
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
The CIA does do assassinations but they realized logn ago it isn't as effective as they want it to be.
Russia, Isreal, do assassinations but they have both been bitten back by them when they got messy.
The CIA uses more dicrediting techniques, over the long term. In 5 years people will go Julian who? Wiki What?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
P.S.
Also it's pretty clear the Japanese never cared about limiting killing to just deaths. They killed lots of civilians during the war. It's a bit hypocritical for the Japs to criticize us for killing innocents in fire-bombings, when they killed about ten times that amount during the war. The name "Rape of Nanking" isn't just a colorful expression.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Since you didn't include a link to the text of the act in question, here is the text of the Espionage Act of 1917.
Section 1, paragraph (e) pretty clearly applies to the person who leaked all of the documents in question.
Section 1, paragraph (d) MIGHT have applied to Wikileaks... EXCEPT for the fact that they provided the State Department with copies of all of the documents that had been leaked, prior to publication.
What's more, not only are they redacting the documents prior to publication, they're redacting the documents EVEN MORE HEAVILY than the declassified versions being published by the Department of Defense.
So, yeah. Granted, IANAL, but I'd say that doesn't apply.
This batch of leaks is about as likely to wind up helping the United States more than hurting it, as it has exposed, for example, the deep hypocrisy of the Arab governments in the middle east. It does the United States very little good, so far as anyone can tell, from letting these governments publicly berate our every action in the region, while privately begging us to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. A little sunshine on that single issue might do enough good to entirely negate any other random embarrassments which occur.
I don't have a sense for whether or not Mr. Assange "hates" the United States. It is quite clear that he thinks governments keep too many secrets, and that he thinks operational transparency might lead to governments whose actions are more closely aligned with the interests of their populations. He seems pretty focused on western democratic nations, and this looks like an indication that perhaps he doesn't hate them. More like "tough love".
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Here they are.
The Japanese are not criticizing us, I don't think.
Actually, they are. The problem is that Japanese don't learn their own history, so most don't even realize that their army massacred and raped so many civilians in WWII.
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