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Wikileaks attack fake?

8 points by oomkiller ↗ HN
I was curious to how bad the DDOS of Wikileaks was, so I pulled down the A records for the domain. I noticed that there were two records. One of them never loads, and the other IP returns an empty response. I decided I would use curl to specify the Host: header, and I suddenly saw wikileaks again. Nothing there though, so it leads me to believe maybe something fake is going on? Either that or the DDOSers are quite naive (to leave one IP protected). You can even browse the site, just put 46.51.186.222 wikileaks.org in your hosts file.

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mfukar
Maybe you should ask this guy [1].

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r

hugh3
That guy has 804 followers. What makes you think he's capable of orchestrating a DDoS?
mfukar
Nothing. He merely takes responsibility for it in one of his tweets, and subsequently claims it wasn't a DDoS.

I'm just saying, 'ask him'.

user24
perhaps because being able to perform a ddos has no correlation at all with having twitter followers? What on earth are you thinking?

I'm not saying that guy is behind it, just that I don't follow why you link lack of twitter followers with ddos ability.