The California-based internet hosting provider that dropped WikiLeaks at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday), Everydns, says it did so to prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense cyber attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.
The site this morning said it had "move[d] to Switzerland", announcing a new domain name -- wikileaks.ch, with the Swiss suffix. However, the new address still only points to an IP address, suggesting WikiLeaks has been unable to quickly find a new hosting provider.
I'm having a hard time seeing how the DDoS attack could affect the DNS provider in any appreciable way.
Why not put the thing on torrents? (well I don't know much about security)
If people care about the source then just use a nick/signature on the torrent that indicates wikileaks else someone else would start to modify info or release a fake.
If they use torrents as a main medium, it might not be available to people to read as easily as a web app though (which even my grandpa can read stuff on the web). Considering they get blocked/change their DNS/host this way, torrents might seem right.
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The California-based internet hosting provider that dropped WikiLeaks at 3am GMT on Friday (10PM EST Thursday), Everydns, says it did so to prevent its other 500,000 customers of being affected by the intense cyber attacks targeted at WikiLeaks.
The site this morning said it had "move[d] to Switzerland", announcing a new domain name -- wikileaks.ch, with the Swiss suffix. However, the new address still only points to an IP address, suggesting WikiLeaks has been unable to quickly find a new hosting provider.
I'm having a hard time seeing how the DDoS attack could affect the DNS provider in any appreciable way.
Attacking techniques have gotten better since then, and botnets have gotten bigger.
Source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/10621623082156033
Other mirrors: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/efi01/wikileaks_v...
If people care about the source then just use a nick/signature on the torrent that indicates wikileaks else someone else would start to modify info or release a fake.
If they use torrents as a main medium, it might not be available to people to read as easily as a web app though (which even my grandpa can read stuff on the web). Considering they get blocked/change their DNS/host this way, torrents might seem right.
http://www.dnsvalidation.com/wikileaks.ch http://www.dnsvalidation.com/wikileaks.org