A hacktivist calling himself The Jester has claimed credit for busting Wikileaks' chops with a denial-of-service attack, and the treason artists have responded by switching to servers owned by Amazon.com.

QuoteWikiLeaks, the website that published a quarter-million sensitive diplomatic cables on Sunday, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver its information. It sounds like an odd choice, but it could make sense.

The site cablegate.wikileaks.org, which WikiLeaks is using for the diplomatic documents, is linked to servers run by Amazon Web Services in Seattle, as well as to French company Octopuce. Wikileaks.org, the site's front page, links back to Amazon servers in the U.S. and in Ireland. Several Internet watchers, including technologist Alex Norcliffe, reported earlier on WikiLeaks' use of Amazon services.

Amazon and WikiLeaks did not return requests for comment.

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Now they are closeing the barn door.   :(

US cuts access to files as Interpol seeks Assange

WASHINGTON — The government scrambled Tuesday to prevent future spills of U.S. secrets like the embarrassing WikiLeaks' disclosures, while officials pondered possible criminal prosecutions and Interpol in Europe sent out a "red notice" for nations to be on the lookout for the website's founder.

Interpol placed Julian Assange on its most-wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him as part of a drawn-out rape probe — involving allegations Assange has denied. The Interpol alert is likely to make international travel more difficult for Assange, whose whereabouts are publicly unknown.

In Washington, the State Department severed its computer files from the government's classified network, officials said, as U.S. and world leaders tried to clean up from the leak that sent America's sensitive documents onto computer screens around the globe.


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The more damaging diplomatic documents are showing Hillary Clinton in a very bad light --- her old penchant for digging up dirt on people, as she did with those missing FBI folders she kept in the East Wing.

Obama should be happy about those screams for Hillary to step down in disgrace. He gets to blame her for "misinterpreting his instructions to her" as his Secretary of State, and can claim she's trying to make him look bad so she can run against him, which she will.

What we need is to go back to what worked in the 40's and 50's
Julian Assange should be hunted down and Shot like the Enemy SPY that he is

Amazon has dumped Wikileaks, says blogger Allahpundit at HotAir.com....

QuoteAs for the report linked this morning in Headlines about Wikileaks being hosted on Amazon's servers, rest easy: You won't have to do your Christmas shopping elsewhere after all. They were summarily booted this afternoon after congressional staff politely inquired with Amazon as to how this arrangement came to be. According to the AP, server space can be rented from the company on a "self-serve basis," suggesting that Amazon might not have realized until today just who their new client was. I find that hard to believe given the amount of traffic that must have been flooding in, but then I also find it hard to believe that Amazon wouldn't have dumped them instantly had they known lest a U.S. boycott cripple their Christmas sales season. (Media reports about the Amazon/Wikileaks were available as early as Monday afternoon.) In any case, Wikileaks has responded with a scathing indictment of Amazon's lack of respect for the First Amendment, which, according to Wikileaks, apparently somehow constitutionally requires private businesses to host organizations that might be criminally liable under the Espionage Act. Good work, Julian.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/01/pentagon-we-could-have-shut-down-wikileaks-but-chose-not-to/

NPR's all a twitter that if a case can be made that they have violated the Espionage Act of 1917, then the long standing 'tradition" of giving members of the media a pass, may be done away with and the prosecution of the wikileaks groups (cells) may lead to prosecution of media persons for violations of the Espionage Act, when they report leaks!

Quote from: wally on December 01, 2010, 03:21:22 PM
NPR's all a twitter that if a case can be made that they have violated the Espionage Act of 1917, then the long standing 'tradition" of giving members of the media a pass, may be done away with and the prosecution of the wikileaks groups (cells) may lead to prosecution of media persons for violations of the Espionage Act, when they report leaks!

Then prosecute the New York Times for their very deep complicity in distributing and fact-checking and censoring of the documents THEY released, from the total Assange actually gave them. They are as guilty as he is, providing him a venue.

Take no chances. Show trials in the staff cafeteria and then fling the guilty off the roof.