Friday, December 3, 2010

WikiLeaks Has Been Taken Down! Or Has It ?

WikiLeaks, "The Mother of All Controversies" as I like to call it, was given the boot by its web-hosts everydns.net and Amazon.
The reason given by everydns.net for taking it down was, "These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites."
However, Amazon denied that there were any DoS(Denial of Service) attacks or pressure from the US Government. Amazon stated WikiLeaks had violated its terms of service by publishing the leaked documents as it did not “own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content.”

But WikiLeaks was probably prepared for such a thing, as they moved to Switzerland within a few hours. WikiLeaks is now up and running and its new URL can be found on its Twitter page.

Man these guys have seriously pissed people off!

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