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    Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS

    Wikileaks was briefly taken down by a large-scale DDoS attack that bombarded the site's servers. It is back up after migrating to Amazon's cloud.
    http://arstechnica.com/security/news...ssive-ddos.ars

    I thought this was interesting.

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    interesting.. AFAIK, they were in a french hosting for a while


    edit: weird thing is that the cablegate link does not load .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orien View Post
    Wow, this is real cyberwar now.
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    They were in The Planet

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    They've been bouncing around on Amazon (San Jose apparently) for close to a week..
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    Will you accept WikiLeaks subscription?

    I'm just curious...

    In case one day WikiLeaks knocks on your doorstep and sign-up.
    Will you accept their subscription? and why?
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    Will you accept their subscription? and why?
    Let me answer your question with another question. Why not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mellow-h View Post
    Let me answer your question with another question. Why not?
    2 Reasons.

    1) I don't agree with what they release on their site and I believe it is just a matter of time before they release something that has true legal ramifications.

    2) They will be a magnet for retaliation from everyone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mellow-h View Post
    Let me answer your question with another question. Why not?
    Can your infrastructure handle a global and very public target like that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mellow-h View Post
    Let me answer your question with another question. Why not?
    Maybe you need to ask this first with your DC.
    Last edited by Yujin; 12-01-2010 at 12:13 PM.
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    Personally, I'm not buying the whole Wikileaks thing tbh.

    I see it as a way the US government can tell then world what they really think of everyone and where they stand.

    All the information thats been leaked so far has posed no serious real threats and the media is simply focussing on key parts of information purely for hype purposes.

    77 domains were pulled by homeland security this week related to warez/counterfeit goods. Wikileaks doesnt get pulled when using Amazon networks, mirroring on US soil, etc...

    It seems a little too convenient imho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The_Cow View Post
    Personally, I'm not buying the whole Wikileaks thing tbh.

    I see it as a way the US government can tell then world what they really think of everyone and where they stand.

    All the information thats been leaked so far has posed no serious real threats and the media is simply focussing on key parts of information purely for hype purposes.

    77 domains were pulled by homeland security this week related to warez/counterfeit goods. Wikileaks doesnt get pulled when using Amazon networks, mirroring on US soil, etc...

    It seems a little too convenient imho.
    Fair enough but every country has secrets. Some are more important than others but some affect negotiations like diplomatic documents. We are all slaves to our egos from time to time and the wrong internal discussion getting out can be taken out of context.

    The 77 domains pulled deserved it. You can only enable illegal file sharing for so long before someone does something about it. Or are you questioning if the sites were doing something wrong?
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    By the way, why would wikileaks move to a US hosting company given that the country most pissed at them is the US?

    I don't get that thinking. Anywhere else would seem to be better. I imagine someone is checking local US laws to figure out if they can now do something about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coolraul View Post
    By the way, why would wikileaks move to a US hosting company given that the country most pissed at them is the US?
    Provoking the concerned individual I guess.
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    Here's another view:
    Surely, the documents released via Wikileaks are good material and attract the attention of various terrorist organizations. Not only that, certain documents will be redistributed and talked about via the internet.
    These documents contain information which is not contained any where else on the internet.

    What does this mean?
    You have a very unique data set to filter traffic for, and see who's actually talking about the data on US Soil (and surely beyond). This means you can pinpoint intel gathering efforts of any US Based terrorist cell, and possibly acquire enough information to locate the whereabouts of such a cell.

    Is the US Government supporting this de-classified document distribution? I don't believe so, but they sure as hell aren't doing anything yet to stop it!

    Thanks for reading,
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    Surprise, surprise.

    Amazon kicked Wikileaks off EC2:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/...ed-From-Amazon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Samuraid View Post
    Surprise, surprise.

    Amazon kicked Wikileaks off EC2:
    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/...ed-From-Amazon
    Yep. Confirmed in other news sources, as well.

    Is it ironic for a book seller to kick off such a web site?

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    Heh, I found this extremely funny.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12...est_confusion/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike - Limestone View Post
    Yep. Confirmed in other news sources, as well.

    Is it ironic for a book seller to kick off such a web site?

    -mike
    Their official response to this:

    http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/

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    Wow, the guys is so busy finding a host. all these news make them more popular and make people more curious .

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    wikileak domain killed by US

    http://twitter.com/wikileaks

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    I think soon they are going to kill their twitter and facebook account as well . Aren't they all based in US

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    Quote Originally Posted by 08A4210 View Post
    wikileak domain killed by US

    http://twitter.com/wikileaks
    wow !!! Let's see what's new name for wikileaks and who host them. Iran, north korea or china?

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    Quote Originally Posted by turbovps View Post
    wow !!! Let's see what's new name for wikileaks and who host them. Iran, north korea or china?
    Most likely with a .se and hosted by the Swedish Pirate Party. The domain was not taken over, but the DNS servers stop serving WikiLeaks, which means it is time for them to start there own DNS servers or go with a more reliable company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orien View Post
    Their official response to this:

    http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/
    A fine example of spinspeak.
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