Spamhaus Under DDoS Over Wikileaks.info

achowe writes "Steve Linford of Spamhaus sent this to a private anti-spam list and asked that the message get out far and wide: 'For speaking out about the crime gangs located at the wikileaks.info mirror IP, Spamhaus is now under ddos by AnonOps. As our site cannot be reached now [actually sporadic], we can not continue to warn Wikileaks users not to load things from the Heihachi IP. ... AnonOps did not like our article update, here is what we said and what brought the ddos on us.'" At the conclusion of this message: "Spamhaus continues to warn Wikileaks readers to make sure they are viewing and downloading documents only from an official Wikileaks mirror site. We’re not saying 'don’t go to Wikileaks' we’re saying 'Use the wikileaks.ch server instead.'" Here is Spamhaus's full warning.

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bullllllshit

[SuperBanana]

As I understand it, some of these servers are hosted on IP addresses shared with other websites, and apparently this setup is incompatible with SSL

Bullshit. There's nothing about virtual hosting that prohibits the use of SSL.

In addition, we have not yet identified a signing authority that we feel confident that would be resistant to coercion and subornation by agencies looking to discredit or manipulate Wikileaks. (Got a suggestion? Reply to this post!)

Oh PLEASE. Then make your own CA (it's not hard, you need a laptop and a safe deposit box) and publish the CA's public key via multiple methods. If the tech community can distribute the keys to DVD/Bluray encryption schemes, it can probably handle this.

Also: dump Julianne - he's toxic as hell. The media are being whipped up into a feeding frenzy and focusing on him and his legal issues exclusively, instead of the content of the leaks. Which is the dream of the governments around the world, because the press are no longer covering the leaks. The second those charges came out he should have stepped down officially, and let someone new take the helm, at least as the public face. Preferably someone who wasn't having sex with near-strangers and bragging about his "work" on a free dating site.

Your organization's mission has been completely subverted by the fact that Julianne didn't have the foresight to realize that it might be a good idea to keep his dick out of strange pussy before and during the organization's work.