Wikileaks offline — for the moment
p2pnet news | Freedom:- Wikileaks.org says it’s, “developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis,”
Or, rather, it used to.
But it doesn’t say it any more, for the moment at least.
It, “could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act,” said Time magazine, according to the February 15 Google cache of the site’s index page.
But, “The US arm of Wikileaks, a website that makes it easy for whistleblowers to leak documents, has been cut off after hosting evidence that claimed a bank located in the Cayman Islands engaged in money laundering and tax evasion,” says The Register.
“Dynadot, the US-based company that hosted Wikileaks’ main site, not only severed wikileaks.org from the net; it also agreed to lock the domain name so it can’t be transferred to another provider. A federal judge in San Francisco signed off on the agreement on Friday.”
The courts, “accepted the bank’s request for an injunction and ordered the company that holds Wikileak’s domain registry, Dynadot, to delete all records of the Wikileaks address from the internet’s main registry,” says The Telegraph, going on:
Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to post documents anonymously on its site in the hope of exposing fraud and wrongdoing.
However, as part of the legal battle, Dynadot has controversially agreed to release details of the “IP addresses and associated data used by any person, other than Dynadot, who accessed the account for the domain name”
In effect, that could ultimately lead to the details of previously anonymous whistle-blowers becoming known.
Says the Wikipedia:
Wikileaks is a website running on modified MediaWiki software which allows whistleblowers to release (whilst remaining anonymous) government and corporate documents, allegedly without possible retribution. It claims that postings are untraceable by anyone attempting to do so. It was launched in December 2006 and, as of November 2007, had contained over 1.2 million documents. It provides mirrors which can be used during outages.
The site and its project were themselves secret, pre-launch, until their existence was disclosed in January of 2007 by Steven Aftergood, editor of Secrecy News. Wikileaks had approached Aftergood to serve on their advisory board. The site in part is being developed by Chinese government dissidents. According to the Wikileaks website, their main targets for leaked disclosure are the former Soviet bloc, sub-Saharan Africa, and Middle Eastern nations, but they expect it to be used for leaks of information about Western governments and corporations. All current staff, developers, or employees of Wikileaks are thought to be secret and unidentified as of January 2007.
As of 7:00 am Pacific, all Wikileaks pages were down and none of the links on the Google cache were working.
But not everything is gone.
“Archive Dated: February 10th, 2008,” says an item on The Pirate Bay, continuing:
“Wikileaks.org, a clearinghouse of whistleblower documents was taken down by a California Court Injunction. Torrent files contain a dated Wikileaks.org archive. This is a snapshot of the documents and may soon be out of date. For more info, checkout the blog: wikileak.org. Archive received from www.cryptome.org .”
There’s also a mirror of some of the bank-related documents from BinaryFreedom’s Matt, says Ringo Kamens on BinaryFreedom, also stating:
“I have ordered (via mail) a DVD containing their entire archive, which I should have ripped into an ISO and online by next week. Until then, we need to get these files out there. If you can’t access wikileaks.org, use the alternate domain names at the end of this article.”
Stay tuned.
Also See:
The Register – US judge arranges summary execution of Wikileaks.org, February 19, 2008
The Telegraph – Whistle-blower website vows to stay online, February 19, 2008
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February 19th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Anyway I downloaded all the document concenrning this crappy cayman bank and all the criminal activity and I promise to proloferate every thing lon internet if Wikileak does not come back on line soon.
This is a message to this piece of crap and low life judge White of California and this is for trampling our constitution.
His order mean zip to us and the Wikileaks informations will stay on internet weither he like it or not.
We have the right to know.
Now I am going to post shit from him too. We have the right to know. Sorry!
Oh he might not like this? Well! he must stop breaking our laws then and we wil leave him alone. Maybe.
Stop me if you can!
Note: Even if one could a lot of people are doing exaclty what Am I doing as we speak so resistance is futile and all the criminals banking in there are screwed!
February 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Jeffrey S. White (United States District Judge) is the piece of shit that commited this infamy against the freedom of speach and the US constitution. You know the document that the piece of garbage that we used to call the president of the United state and who appointed this judge (No Wonder!) call a piece of paper!
February 19th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
What is this “freedom” you mention? How much does it cost to buy that?
February 19th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
This travesty of justice judge and the misuse the DMCA to hide our illegal
activities bank are going to find out the hard way what the Streisand effect
is.
If you go to http://cryptome.org/ , the first link is to a torrent that Wikileaks
is seeding at the Pirate Bay. HAHAHA!!!
February 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I love the way the Internet community is taking care of us all. The saviour is the people.
February 20th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
This site is still up. Instead of typing in their domain name in the address bar, try typing in http://88.80.13.160 .
This will take you to their website.