DDoS Attack On Wikileaks Increasing 919
tetrahedrassface writes "According to the Twitter feed for Wikileaks, the attack on the controversial site is increasing and is now at 10 Gigabits per second. In light of the recent release of highly sensitive documents and calls by many lawmakers around the world to swiftly find, extradite, and try suspected rapist Julius Assange for breaches of national security, one nation, Ecuador, has offered asylum."
Gov't Sponsored DDoS (Score:1, Informative)
Seems very likely the US Gov't, through one of it's shadowy connections, hired and paid for this DDoS attack. Interesting trend. I wonder what's next.
Re:At least someone has balls (and common sense) (Score:5, Informative)
Ecuador ranks a whooping 101 on the press freedom index [wikipedia.org], with an annually deteriorating index value. I'm not quite convinced it's the best country to exile to for people publishing inconveniant documents.
Re:simple solution (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Ut Oh! (Score:3, Informative)
Theres a pattern in DDOS traffic.
http://www10.org/cdrom/papers/409/ [www10.org]
Julian Assanges cables leak put lives at risk. (Score:4, Informative)
Here is the Proof
3. (S) The Baku businessman is a UK-educated engineer from a
prominent Pre-Revolution Isfahan family, and formerly owned a
large factory in Iran. He is a former national fencing
champion of Iran. former President of the Iran Fencing
Association, and Vice-President of an Azerbaijan sports
association. He has been based in Baku for more than ten
years, working primarily as a sub-contractor to BP and the
Cape Industrial Services company. While his oil services
company includes an insulation division that may be in
competition with INSULTEC, source has provided "inside"
information on many other Iranian issues (including
comprehensive data on the status of new Iranian oil refinery
construction) that does not relate to his private interests
in any way.
4. (S) Note: A quick google check revealed several companies
with the name INSULTEC in the title - these may or not be
affiliated. Based on the information provided by source
(currently in Iran, where he frequently travels), one
possible candidate could be "INSULTEC Chitral Ltd." End
Note.
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09BAKU179.html [wikileaks.org]
You can thank Julian Assange for this.
Let's change "suspectted" to "alleged" (Score:4, Informative)
Even in a normal case, that really is presuming guilt. In this case, where it looks like it isn't even a rape by classic measures, it's more dubious.
As far as I can tell, both ladies had voluntary sex and then later, based on additional facts, decided they were raped. As far as I can tell, no one has alleged Assange forcibly had sex with them while they were saying "no".
Re:If you didn't do anything wrong, (Score:3, Informative)
If you have enough time to get under a desk after you see the flash, you are on the outskirts, so it makes good sense to attempt to do so.
It's not a claim anymore it's a fact. (Score:5, Informative)
Just read this:
http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/03/09BAKU179.html [wikileaks.org]
Intelligence sources are being put at risk by these leaks. Julian Assange claims to care about civilians but he leaks documents that can get people killed? Why? To solve what?
The world is not made safer. Nothing in these cables are worth the loss of civilian life. These cables don't prevent a war with Iran or North Korea, they make war much more likely.
Re:Slashdotting (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Slashdotting (Score:1, Informative)
Have you tried going beyond the front page, or did you just go to wikileaks.org and declare it usable? Support, About, and Submissions work well. However, anything interesting is coming up (from my end) as a timeout.
Re:Gov't Sponsored DDoS (Score:4, Informative)
Those things are widely-known facts. Ever heard of Guantanamo bay? Check the previous Wikileaks releases for torture accounts, which are now being investigated by the UN.
Post as AC? Are you really THAT afraid of your government?
Re:I'm sure I'm not alone when I say... (Score:3, Informative)
Go Equador.
I'm pretty sure you are alone. Most people would spell it Ecuador.
Re:Gov't Sponsored DDoS (Score:5, Informative)
FBI assassinating American citizens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO [wikipedia.org]
Deaths due to torture
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/06/30/accountability [salon.com]
Extra-judicial assassinations (not including daily drone bombings)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.html [nytimes.com]
Of course, no one really knows what The Agency is doing right now. What is known is that the secret prisons still exist, and that the legal process of "extraordinary rendition", known to the rest of the world as kidnapping, still occurs. Our terrorism suspects are regularly flown to dictatorships like Egypt and tortured with our approval.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
Only After Upgrading to the Cloud (Score:5, Informative)
Re:At least someone has balls (and common sense) (Score:4, Informative)
Has he broken any laws you can name...
Most likely the Espionage Act of 1917. Not judging the merits of the case, but that's what immediately comes to mind.
Re:I'm sure I'm not alone when I say... (Score:1, Informative)
Portuguese speakers call it Equador.
Re:If you didn't do anything wrong, (Score:3, Informative)
the press freedom index is from the US Gov (Score:4, Informative)
Ecuador ranks a whooping 101 on the press freedom index [wikipedia.org], with an annually deteriorating index value. I'm not quite convinced it's the best country to exile to for people publishing inconveniant documents.
The compilers of that "press freedom index" is Reporters Without Borders. RWB are primarily funded by the US government [zcommunications.org] through the National Endowment for Democracy which was founded during the Reagan administration to channel funds to organizations abroad that would support US foreign policy. Sometimes this funding is direct [ned.org], sometimes it is conducted through the international arms of the US Democratic Party or Republican Party [counterpunch.org].
I would consider that the "US State Dept Press Freedom Index".
Re:Gov't Sponsored DDoS (Score:5, Informative)
Id be especially interested in the "currently torturing someone to death"... is that rhetoric, or should you be posting AC?
You really don't know about any [wikipedia.org] of [wikipedia.org] the [wikipedia.org] examples [wikipedia.org]?
Wow, our media has utterly failed us.
Re:At least someone has balls (and common sense) (Score:3, Informative)
The CIA does do assassinations but they realized logn ago it isn't as effective as they want it to be.
Russia, Isreal, do assassinations but they have both been bitten back by them when they got messy.
The CIA uses more dicrediting techniques, over the long term. In 5 years people will go Julian who? Wiki What?
Re:Let's change "suspectted" to "alleged" (Score:4, Informative)
That's because of the way the whole 'rape' thing works. You see, a lot of rapes don't start out as rape. Instead it's something like making out, maybe cuddling, etc. Then someone takes things too far and is just used to the other person sharing their passions or going along with it. Except this time, they aren't going along with it. They've decided that they don't want to go to third base, but things keep evolving. Either they're too weak/scared to say no, or they were forced to do it.
It's still rape.
Therein lies the problem. Anyone, at any time, can decide that a sexual encounter in the past was rape. All they have to do is say that sex happened and that they didn't want to do it at some point. Even if that point lies after the fact, it's still rape.
Get drunk at a party and sleep with someone nasty? Rape, of course. Want to have a better standing in the divorce? They raped you, and you're afraid for your children/pets/belongings. Get in a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend and want to be a vindictive ass? They raped you.
Of course, it generally only applies to women, since most men would be laughed out of the court room for saying they were raped by a woman. And if they woman conceived during that rape, the guy would still be responsible for paying child support payments, regardless of the circumstances of the rape. There is NO gender equality going on here.
Re:If you didn't do anything wrong, (Score:3, Informative)
P.S.
Also it's pretty clear the Japanese never cared about limiting killing to just deaths. They killed lots of civilians during the war. It's a bit hypocritical for the Japs to criticize us for killing innocents in fire-bombings, when they killed about ten times that amount during the war. The name "Rape of Nanking" isn't just a colorful expression.
Espionage Act of 1917 (Score:5, Informative)
Since you didn't include a link to the text of the act in question, here is the text of the Espionage Act of 1917 [firstworldwar.com].
Section 1, paragraph (e) pretty clearly applies to the person who leaked all of the documents in question.
Section 1, paragraph (d) MIGHT have applied to Wikileaks... EXCEPT for the fact that they provided the State Department with copies of all of the documents that had been leaked, prior to publication.
What's more, not only are they redacting the documents prior to publication, they're redacting the documents EVEN MORE HEAVILY than the declassified versions being published by the Department of Defense. [cnn.com]
So, yeah. Granted, IANAL, but I'd say that doesn't apply.
Re:If you didn't do anything wrong, (Score:2, Informative)
The use of nukes was really to cause massive casualties to demonstrate the inevitability of defeat if an all out assault with nukes were to be launched. It was aimed at getting them to surrender, not to disable the 2nd army headquarters, or reduce the small arms production.
the true lessons to be learned (Score:4, Informative)
I don't have a sense for whether or not Mr. Assange "hates" the United States. It is quite clear that he thinks governments keep too many secrets, and that he thinks operational transparency might lead to governments whose actions are more closely aligned with the interests of their populations. He seems pretty focused on western democratic nations, and this looks like an indication that perhaps he doesn't hate them. More like "tough love".
Re:Wikileaks isn't a leaks aleaks site anymore (Score:5, Informative)
Re:If you didn't do anything wrong, (Score:3, Informative)
The Japanese are not criticizing us, I don't think.
Actually, they are. The problem is that Japanese don't learn their own history, so most don't even realize that their army massacred and raped so many civilians in WWII.