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Wikileaks under mass distributed Denial of Service Attack

A | 28.11.2010 17:36 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield

Wikileaks announced today at 17.00 that the Wikileaks website is under a sustained and distributed Denial of Service Attack.



There is speculation on who could be behind these attacks, particularly since the US state department has said the release will 'put many lives at risk'. However this same statement was made when the Iraq war logs were released, and has proved to be unsubstantiated. Furthermore the statement that Wikileaks has 'blood on it's hands' by a top US military official occurred to most people as glaringly ironic.

Wikileaks have stated "El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down". The latest leaks are expected to include US diplomatic wires heavily criticising a number of world leaders including Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, David Cameron, and Nelson Mandela. It is expected to demonstrate that the 'special relationship' between Britain and the US (to those who insisted on believing this) is actually a sham.

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Fair criticism

28.11.2010 23:36

I came back here last month because I'm writing an article about how different media outlets cover this story. I used to write here regularly and I broke a few stories, perhaps the least of which was being the first person to announce wikileaks here.

The world is a much nastier place now, and thanks to ongoing and concerted infiltration by Nasties this is a much poorer forum. My original post on wikileaks here has been disappeared, and even the few remaining genuine IMCistas that aren't state informers refuse to investigate my abundant evidence against their fellow IMCistas.

It is noticable and telling how many regional IM 'kollectives' now refuse to accept anonymous posts, yet those same kollectives are reposted on IM-UK. That is shameless given the only safe way to post here is anonymous IPs.

Wikileaks may be dodgy, but they are head and shouilders above every UK activist site, including IM-UK, who actively rat activists out.

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