Online activists fighting to keep WikiLeaks alive

[Joanne98]

Though it's in hot water with the U.S. government, WikiLeaks is being supported by online activists fighting to keep the site alive.



WikiLeaks is being propped up by a barrage of mirror sites created by activists following moves by Amazon to stop hosting its site and Domain Name System provider EveryDNS.net to cut off its DNS services, according to The New York Times. Such mirrors can replicate an entire Web site, ensuring that all content and documents remain online and accessible even if WikiLeaks' own site is taken down.

But some of WikiLeaks supporters are adopting a more hostile tone. On Saturday PayPal restricted access to WikiLeaks' account to prevent fund raisers from donating money to help the site. In return, the PayPal blog page that announced the decision to shut off WikiLeaks' account was taken offline for around eight hours last night by a distributed denial- of-service (DDoS) attack.

Experts at Panda Labs pointed to a statement from the "hacktivist" group Anonymous, which said that the PayPal blog would be the target of its first DDoS counterattack on behalf of WikiLeaks. Panda also cited comments from a Twitter account named AnonyWatcher, which released several statements related to the attack.

The offensive against PayPal could be a sign of bigger things yet to come. A poster on a file upload site has issued a rallying cry for further action on Anonymous' DDoS campaigns.



Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20024701-38.html#ixzz17MCMr5Dj

[EmilyKent]

1. Bravo!

[Arctic Dave]

2. Payback is a motherf*cker.

[sabrina 1]

3. The People V Corporate States

I hope the people win this time. These documents have demonstrated how little the world's leaders care about their people. No wonder they are so desperate to hide the evidence.

Bravo to those supporting Wikileaks.

[snagglepuss]

4. K & R nt