WikiLurks?
Something is Loose in the Lines. Looks like the DHS, NSA, FBI Acronymachine is tracking the Wiki is tracking the NSA is tracking the Wiki
Kevin Gosztola at Fire Dog Lake is unstoppable...Here is a sample of his latest. I encourage the curious minds out there to go to FDL and read the piece in its entirety...Because there are more atacks such as this in store. And as anyone who has brushed up against mainstream media lately will attest, the stench of CyberSecurity Laws is tough to get rid of...
"WikiLeaks has announced that its website is now operational again after “installing substantial extra capacity” and additional support through CloudFlare, a website security service capable of blocking threats and limiting “abusive bots and crawlers” from wasting “bandwidth and server resources.”
The media organization described how much difficulty they were having overcoming the attack on August 10:
The attack is well over 10Gbits/second sustained on the main WikiLeaks domains. The bandwidth is used is so huge it is impossible to filter without specialized hardware, however… the DDoS is not simple bulk UDP or ICMP packet flooding, so most hardware filters won’t work either. Whoever is running it controls thousands of machines or is able to simulate them. We have even tried moving behind http://Cloudflare.com but Cloudflare has pre-emptively banned WikiLeaks. Living in the wild wild west.
The announcement suggests WikiLeaks worked out something with CloudFlare in the past few days. Additionally, the attack was targeting the website’s “donations infrastructure” called the “Fund for Network Neutrality.” Cyber attacks on WikiLeaks have typically led to increases in donations, the organization claimed. This time that was stymied as the infrastructure was hit too.
This attack was claimed by a group that calls itself AntiLeaks. Like something out of a spoof, the group’s leader claimed his or her name is DietPepsi. The leader proceeded to add that the group was made up of “young adults, citizens of the United States of America,” who are “deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador.” The leader went on to characterize Assange as “the head of a new breed of terrorist” and cast the attack as a “protest” against Assange’s attempt to escape justice into Ecuador."
NOTE BENE:
This Thursday, August 16th, The Bradley Manning support Network is co-ordinating actions all across the country. This presidential campaign Saison d'en Fer - fuelled by ignorance, money and fear - is a clusterrfuck of epic proportions for any among us on trial for irritating the 1 percent. Bradley Manning, whwen he obeyed his conscience and did the right thing, stepping directly on the serpent's tail. It's a big snake with a very small brain, but when it does react, the attack comes with PCP-like strength, maddness, bile and blood. Oakland is the center of the direct action campaign this Thursday, but Portland is close behind.
- KBOO