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."

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It's not a claim anymore it's a fact.

[elucido]

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.

Re:Slashdotting

[barcarolle]

I think you mean, "[your interest is] piqued."

Re:Gov't Sponsored DDoS

[copponex]

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