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The WikiLeaks Server That Hosted Cablegate Is for Sale on eBay
Adam Clark Estes
... WikiLeaks is not the one selling the server on eBay. It's Bahnhof, the Swedish internet service provider that rented out the server to Julian Assange ... "Bahnhof did not seek permission to auction the WikiLeaks server or to use it for marketing purposes, or to send the proceeds to others," WikiLeaks said in a tweet ... Calling the server "the physical server that changed the word" and "a unique collector's item," the Swedish company, a one-time WikiLeaks ally, said it would include the original paperwork with Julian Assange's signature ... Bahnhof spokesman Jon Karlug responded to the WikiLeaks condemnation:
Bahnhof owns the hardware. Wikileaks rented it between September 2010 and july 2011, both the operations cablegates and war logs where performed from that particular web server ... The hard disks has been erased according to U.S. specification DoD 5220.22-M ...
http://gizmodo.com/the-wikileaks-server-that-hosted-cablegate-is-for-sale-1245720862