Wikileaks Under DDoS Attacks

The past couple of days Wikileaks has been down periodically for good amounts of time at a time. It's currently down right now. They claim they're under a DDoS attack, anyone think the United States Government is doing this?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/28/wikileaks-ddos-attack/

 

It's definitely some government or another. No actual would really DDoS them for speaking the truth.

Then again, it may not be the US government as they know they'll be the first blamed.

 

high chance

 

this could be your problem?

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/03/wikileaks-shut-down-but-not-for-long/

 

Oh, thanks for that.

 

It's pretty clear that its not just some random DDoS attack, im sure hackers are loving WikiLeaks atm anyway, just because of all the fun shit they're putting out.

Governments are attacking it, and have been attacking WikiLeaks in different ways for awhile now. Such as shutting down their account that receives all their funding.

 

US Government, yes. US Government is rubbish right now

 

What sense does that make? You'd think with a whole countries governments resources, all they can do is come up with a DDoS attack? I'm calling bullshit. I'm sure the United States could hire a team of professional computer hackers to actually do more than some skid botnet attacks.

 

There have been people under the age of 18 with botnets ranging from 10,000 plus zombies. If you know how to work torrents and spread effectively and quickly, it's nothing hard. I guess you do have a point, I just don't see why they would resort to DDoS'ing.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if some government was attempting to DDoS the site, after release of 251,287 cables (including some 100,000 marked "Secret") the politicians and rulers of the world wouldn't want the public seeing these. These sorts of things make me feel rather cautious about our world.

 

Their DNS server was shut down, and their various hosts have removed them from their servers, so not all the downtime is due to DDoS attacks. The Chinese government is known to use them, though.

 

Definitely. This is going to make the situation worse though, he threatened with more "damaging secrets" if his site was continually DDoSed... gonna be interesting to see what ends up happening to the founder..

Less than 1,000 have been released on the wikileaks website..

 

Well 4chan fucking loves Julian Assange, and in the past they have some of the best ddosers out there.

It must be a government, foreign or domestic. No hacker cares that much about information. Hackers usually tend to extract information, not conceal it.

Also, Julian Assange was arrested

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Lawyer--WikiLeaks--Assange-Arrested-in-London-111434179.html

 

Without a doubt, yes.

Some government official here said the warrant for his arrest over here was "Highly unusual" - ie. He was set up.

 

Tyro could you explain further cause I was thinking the same thing. I'm just wondering if you were thinking that for similar reasons.



wow this video says that he will release documents if he is killed, he's such a smart guy lol.

 

Man, whatever he leaks doesn't matter. People are too ignorant for change. It's funny how a lot of society doesn't realize what goes around in their surroundings. Even if you do, you know just like the rest your going to look and turn your shoulder.

 

postfinance.ch

That's the swiss bank that withdrew Assange's funds. Their website has been down for 2 days (I'm sure you can guess who did that)

things are looking pretty shitty for Assange.

 

Didn't he turn himself in?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/07/julian-assange-denied-bail

 

it will be interesting to see what happens, he has threatened to release all of their other documents at once if he is arrested but i think this would actually be better than dragging it out since that will keep drawing more attention to it where getting it all out at once will make people eventually forget it faster