[132796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: wikileaks unreachable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Dec 1 16:27:21 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <A5E051B3-1514-4F3B-B4DB-B2F561274AC9@americafree.tv>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:27:10 -0500
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 30, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> On Nov 28, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
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>> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations
>> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has
>> left?
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> That was two days ago - as of this morning, there is apparently =
another
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> =46rom @wikileaks on twitter=20
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> wikileaks WikiLeaks=20
> DDOS attack now exceeding 10 Gigabits a second.
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> wikileaks WikiLeaks=20
> We are currently under another DDOS attack.
More routing news :=20
Wikileaks has been booted off Amazon EC2
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http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/12/wikileaks-kicked-out-of-amazo=
ns-cloud.ars
"Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), chairman of the Homeland Security and =
Governmental Affairs Committee, was among the congressmen who pressured =
Amazon to stop hosting Wikileaks...
The site was down briefly after being ejected from Amazon, but is back =
up and once again running on the servers of Bahnhof, its previous =
Swedish hosting provider."
regards
Marshall
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