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WikiLeaks Kicked Off Of Amazon Servers – Now Being Hosted In Cold War Bunker
Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday.
But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found a new home for its files: A Cold War bunker, inside a Swedish mountain, that’s been described as fit for a “James Bond” movie.
A company called Bahnhof is hosting the WikiLeaks site from a literal cave inside White Mountain, near Stockholm, Sweden, according to news reports from Forbes, The Associated Press, and the Norwegian news website VG Nett.
The MIT Technology Review, where we spotted this story, describes the situation this way:
“If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he’s succeeded: the ongoing distributed denial of service attack against Wikileaks has forced his minions to move the site to a fortified data center encased in a cold war-era, nuke-proof bunker encased in bedrock. Really.”
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UPDATE: WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name
WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name
(The Guardian) – The US was today accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively “killing” its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.
The whistleblowers’ website went offline for the third time in a week this morning, in the biggest threat to its online presence yet.
Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate’s committee on homeland security, earlier this week called for any organisation helping sustain WikiLeaks to “immediately terminate” its relationship with them.
On Friday morning, WikiLeaks and the cache of secret diplomatic documents that have proved to be a scourge for governments around the world were only accessible through a string of digits known as a DNS address. The site later re-emerged with a Swiss domain, WikiLeaks.ch. [WikiLeaks Pops-up Everywhere – also in the EU and NL]
Julian Assange this morning said the development is an example of the “privatisation of state censorship” in the US and is a “serious problem.”
“These attacks will not stop our mission, but should be setting off alarm bells about the rule of law in the United States,” he warned.
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A number of these guys are from the world’s best Internet security scene or as you will … former hackers. A Dutchman included.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
