Flashermac Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says. The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities. Other versions of the pages, hosted in countries such as Belgium and India, can still be accessed. However, the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site's domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers. The court also ordered that Dynadot should "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court." Other orders included that the domain name be locked "to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar" to prevent changes being made to the site. Wikileaks claimed that the order was "unconstitutional" and said that the site had been "forcibly censored". The case was brought by lawyers working for the Swiss banking group Julius Baer. It concerned several documents posted on the site which allegedly reveal that the bank was involved with money laundering and tax evasion. The site was founded in 2006. The documents were allegedly posted by Rudolf Elmer, former vice president of the bank's Cayman Island's operation. BBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 The land of the free....only in song it appears nowadays... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 19, 2008 Report Share Posted February 19, 2008 Still standing if you're quick... http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks "According to this piece from Wired News, Wikileaks was unable to argue its position on the matter at a Friday court hearing because it only learned of the hearing a few hours before it started. Astonishingly, US District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California signed off on the stipulation, anyway. The episode is another reminder that an organization's security is only as good as the security of the people who provide its internet connection. Wikileaks claims that it is an "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis". But this is true only if its webhosts can be trusted not to pull the plug on its customers or divulge sensitive client information. In this case Julius Baer quickly realized it couldn't silence Wikileaks, so it went after a weaker link in the chain, which evidently was much less willing to put up a fight. Wikileaks was founded in 2006 by people from a host of countries, including the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. It has generated headlines by hosting documents exposing several high-profile scandals, including those related to the collapse of the UK's Northern Rock bank and to prisons in Iraq and and Guantanamo Bay. The site says it has posted more than 1.2 million documents." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/wikileaks_shut_down_in_us/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jai-dee Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 The website wasn't actually taken down, just the domain name was removed from the DNS. You can still access the website using its IP address: http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.