Wikileaks survives multiple network attacks.
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Wikileaks, which has released a quarter of a million documents embarrasing U.S. and ally governments, was “partially offline” this morning. At about 1 PM today, Wikileaks tweeted:
As of 2:33 PM Eastern Standard Time [USA1] these links are all still alive. On Democracy Now! this morning, Juan Gonzalez announced that Wikileaks was “offline.” He said that Wikileaks was only available through a “string of digits …” The inaccurate part of his statement has been redacted to protect the guilty. |
What had happened, Wikileaks tweeted about 1 AM Friday Dec 3, 2010:
WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass attacks KEEP US STRONG https://donations.datacell.com/
At about 4 AM:
WIKILEAKS: Free speech has a number: http://88.80.13.160
And shortly after:
WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland http://wikileaks.ch
This Domain Name also apparently went off line, but as of this writing [4:33 PM EST 12/3/2010] is online.
A Domain Name Server translates the words “wikileaks.org” into a “string of digits” sometimes called a ‘quad’ because there are actually four groups of digits separated by periods. The formal name for this is an Internet Protocol or IP address. The IP address is what the routers on the net actually use to direct messages to the right place. Without translation the words don’t do anything. The specific kind of attack was the same as the earlier attack when Wikileaks was on Amazon’s servers:
WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free–fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe.Wed Dec 01 2010 14:50:43 (Eastern Standard Time) via web
They moved from their Swedish host Bahnhof AB to Amazon because:
We are currently under another DDOS attack.Tue Nov 30 2010 07:04:49 (Eastern Standard Time) via web
DDOS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.Tue Nov 30 2010 09:06:00 (Eastern Standard Time) via web
DDOS is Distributed Denial of Service an attack where many different computers [Distributed] are used to direct traffic to a single target overloading it [Denial of Service.] Amazon’s Wikileaks Takedown has been reported and analyzed by Berkoblogger Hal Roberts.
1All subsequent times will be Eastern Standard Time [USA] unless otherwise noted.
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