Wikileaks is an international organization that have been releasing confidential information from several anonymous sources. Lately, they had been on the hotspot (though I think they have been from the very beginning) after releasing more and more secret cables from the US. What's next in this string of events?
Being on the news this past few weeks, Wikileaks sure had caught so much attention from different media, hacktivists and even common citizens. The organization have been releasing sensitive information about US operations on a daily basis. With this in action, several authorities had made their move against Wikileaks.
For quite a few days, the main server of Wikileaks had been down, apparently due to DDoS attacks launched by some authority against its activities. The organization of course have several other sites to move to, but their hosting companies seem to have backed out on hosting these servers as the feds found ways of making it LEGALLY UNLAWFUL. Even top banks that were used on the donation processing for the site had their hands cleaned out of this trouble by cutting out any transactions in account for Wikileaks, including PayPal and Master Card.
However, not only the feds seem to have been making their moves. Anonymous, a group of hacktivists, people who hack for a certain purpose (mostly politically concerned), made their step by aiming DDoS attacks on websites that "bowed" to the government. They also provided several backup links for Wikileaks.
As a way of ensuring that these information be shared to everyone as much as possible, Wikileaks shared the files through P2P connections, making it much harder to suppress.
With all these present events, what could possibly happen next? Will US actually be able to stop this information freedom revolution? You, where do you stand? Do you stand for freedom for information? Or will you support the ethical way of living?
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wikileaks: Confidential information for everyone with a modem
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