Wikileaks website is under attack

[Very_Boring_Name]

They just posted this on twitter:

We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. K&R...thanks.

[Catherina]

2. I'm sure they were prepared for that eventuality. Give it up White House. Rec'd n/t

[Canuckistanian]

3. Wikileaks is down.

http://wikileaks.org/

[polichick]

4. self-delete

[ThomThom]

5. What does the government fear?

They must have something they don't want us to see.

[_ed_]

7. They fear us

and information.

[Individualist]

19. Transparency

[FrancisTreptoe]

24. Knowledge Is Power

They don't want the free flow of Information.

[JBoy]

6. Good luck, Leeroy Jenkins.

[kgnu_fan]

8. Hysterical!!! Give it up!!! Don't be a baby!!!!

[jberryhill]

9. Perhaps releasing the files instead of hyping it for a week would have been a better idea

Saying "I'm going to do this on Sunday" is a pretty good way to attract disruptive attention.

If the docs are what they are cracked up to be, then you don't need to spend a week saying "this is big stuff!"

Telling the whole world "hit my site on Sunday" is going to look a lot like a DDOS attack when it happens.

[ananda]

10. This is a good point.

I've been wondering about that myself.

Why not just go ahead and spring the fucking leaks?

[Renew Deal]

17. I agree

There's probably a lot of people out there just hitting F5. :shrug:

[jberryhill]

34. Gazillions /nt

[Catherina]

11. Twitter 2: El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight,

El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down
1 minute ago via web

[egoclothes]

12. Eventually, the docs will be released, through one source or another, which

is good. (IMHO)

[tyne]

14. I'm having a hard time

understanding why people are looking forward to diplomatic secrets, which will weaken efforts, to come out and hurt the country.

[earthside]

15. Wow.

What a presumption that 'our' government -- that is controlled by the mega-transnational corporations and the lobbyist-military-industrial complex -- is working on 'our' behalf.

Didn't Vietnam, Watergate, NAFTA, impeachment, the Iraq War, and the the Crash of 2008 teach you anything?

[WinkyDink]

20. Do you also believe the Cherry-Tree myth?

[Catherina]

22. Wid us or agin us? What faith you have in a country with a history of

illegal wars, coups, political assassinations.

[jberryhill]

13. But not all of them. What are they hiding?

[Catherina]

18. Whatever their governments ask them to hide. I want the full download n/t

[Renew Deal]

16. OMG that's so dramatic

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

21. For the record, DDoS attacks happen to thousands of sites, every day.

[Catherina]

23. You're right. This is just an unfortunate coincidence.

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

25. You're right. Obama himself is responsible.

:eyes:

[Catherina]

26. In this case, you could be right. Thank you n/t

[PeaceNikki]

28. Do you know how cheap and easy it is to buy a botnet to strike a DDoS attack?

Anybody can buy one for under a grand that will bring some major infrastructures to their knees. Your post upthread that said "Give it up White House" implies that they are behind this and that's just silly.

[Catherina]

30. I see. n/t

[HipChick]

31. I knew they shouldn't have allowed him to have a laptop in the Oval Office

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

32. I know, between that and his BlackBerry, he keeps hitting "refresh" and it's fucking them all up.

[jberryhill]

33. Publicizing a big file download for a week in advance...

...is a great way to get millions of http queries looking for your site.

Duh.

On Christmas day, when everyone unwraps their new computer or Ithing, watch what happens to Apple and Microsoft as soon as all of those devices start looking for updates. They've gotten better, but Microsoft was dang near taken out that way a few years ago.

[HipChick]

27. oh..the drama

DDos attacks go on everyday..not to mention that they would have a incremental # of people trying to get their site today...that could look like a DDos..or simply not enough bandwith? I wonder who hosts them?

[kgnu_fan]

29. I don't know, some of you are really really funny...

[jeff47]

35. Do we really need this many dupes? (nt)

[Very_Boring_Name]

36. umm excuse me but mine isnt a dupe

I posted this seconds after they said this on wikileaks. So please stop spamming my thread thanks.

[jeff47]

37. Yeah, 'cause this other thread doesn't exist

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4632115

[Very_Boring_Name]

38. That thread was posting at 4:38, mine was posted at 4:35

Stop spamming my thread with your crap.