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Nicholas Adams

The greater problem of Wikileaks: When innocent sites become the victims - 0 views

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  • Nicholas Adams on 19 Mar 11
     
    This webpage discusses how other websites and corporations have been affected by the Wikileaks issues. Such issues as public censorship, which Amazon has for years condoned, resurfaced surrounding government and public pressures about Wikileaks. Now Amazon must consider if they are willing to pre-screen or censor material uploaded to their site. Twitter has faced similar issues, while PayPal has come under substantial fire from the government for supporting Wikileaks' Donation efforts.
Nicholas Adams

Scope of information. - 3 views

I was worried at first that this would be a difficult topic to research granted that I am in the SFS and have been explicitly warned to remain as far separated from Wikileaks as possible due to pot...

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Shida Zhang

BBC News - Anonymous hacktivists say Wikileaks war to continue - 1 views

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      Shida Zhang on 15 Mar 11
       
      Note: they are trying to create hundreds of mirror sites for Wikileaks.
  • Paul Mutton at the security firm Netcraft, who is monitoring the attacks, said Visa is considered a more difficult target and the attack on it required a much larger number of "hacktivists" - politically motivated hackers - 2,000 compared with 400 for Mastercard.
  • Anonymous, which claimed to have carried out the attack, is a loose-knit group of hacktivists, with links to the notorious message board 4chan.
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  • PayPal, which has stopped processing donations to Wikileaks, has also been targeted.
  • Security experts said the sites had been targeted by a so-called distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), which swamp a site with so many page requests that it becomes overwhelmed and drops offline.
  • "We feel that Wikileaks has become more than just about leaking of documents, it has become a war ground, the people vs. the government," he said.
  • "The idea is not to wipe them off but to give the companies a wake-up call," he said. "Companies will notice the increase in traffic and an increase in traffic means increase in costs associated with running a website."
  • DDoS attacks are illegal in many countries, including the UK.
  • Anonymous is also helping to create hundreds of mirror sites for Wikileaks, after its US domain name provider withdrew its services.
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