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US DNS provider continues to host Wikileaks domain
AMERICAN DNS HOSTING SERVICE EveryDNS continues to host Wikileaks' domain names despite having said it had severed ties with the whistleblowing outfit.
It seemed the burden of enabling free speech online had proven too great for Wikileaks' domain name system (DNS) provider EveryDNS as it pulled the plug on the wikileaks.org domain name. EveryDNS had been providing DNS service for Wikileaks' primary domain, wikileaks.org, until it decided that the domain name was too much of a risk to its operational ability and told Wikileaks it would no longer continue to provide service.
In a statement, the firm claims to have tried to get in touch with Wikileaks through the email address used to register the domain and Twitter to give it 24 hours notice. Either Wikileaks never read the messages or couldn't find an alternative domain host in time and the result was wikileaks.org going down, again.
Wikileaks emerged earlier today under the Swiss domain name of wikileaks.ch, which resolves to two IP addresses, 88.80.2.32 and 88.80.13.160 at the Swedish 'bulletproof' hosting provider, PRQ. However, wikileaks.ch shows up as using EveryDNS servers based in the US to resolve the domain name to the aforementioned IP addresses.
So despite EveryDNS's public stance that it had severed ties with Wikileaks, it is basically back in the same position it was 24 hours ago, providing DNS servers to the outfit, albeit in a different top level domain.
EveryDNS doesn't actually host Wikileaks but is used to provide DNS resolution services, meaning its decision to sever ties with the whistleblowing website didn't actually knock it offline but rather required users to input an IP address rather than www.wikileaks.org to access the website.
Justifying its stance on the termination of services to wikileaks.org, EveryDNS issued a statement saying, "The services were terminated for violation of the provision which states that Member shall not interfere with another Member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services." It continued by referring to DDoS attacks as causing 'interference' and said that it threatens the outfit's infrastructure and ability to "enable access" to half a million other websites.
Dropping customers that pose a risk to infrastructure is a common clause in many hosting providers' service level agreements. From that point of view, EveryDNS's stance wasn't particularly unique or wrong, however it is surprising that the firm, even with 500,000 other domains, wouldn't have flagged another Wikileaks domain name being hosted on its servers.
It seems that both Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are playing a game of cat and mouse and doing a pretty good job of embarrassing not only the US government but businesses too. µ
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They can just keep shutting down websites as far as I am concerned. If these website operators are this clueless they should be shuttered.
But of course we can, my good sir.
As soon as we opt to elect only open and honest officials, that is.
Which, of course, requires that we actually track the opinions of candidates and refuse to elect those who change horses as soon as the wind changes direction.
But hey, that's a lot of work, isn't it ?
This sort of rough treatment is needed for public officials. If black-ops missions for instance NEVER come to light there's no balance. One might posit the need for doing things that one's laws do not permit, however there's no line drawn without public NOT peer review. Peers have peer pressure, and unfortunately the public usually gets a 'whitewashed' version of most critical events and operations. The next thing you know youve got *cough*hitler*cough*bush*cough*nazis*cough*bush.jr*cough*whoknows* doing wtf ever they want, with more and more impunity till there are no civil liberties left. Which are a fairly new concept anyway....
wikileaks.ch is down...has been for a couple of hours.
WikiLeaks is back, however, at wikileaks.nl
It's extremely hard for one group to kill a thing on the internet when another group is determined to keep it alive.
So the facts "seem to be" that DNS host are being thretened by crimminal government bodies that are trying to hide the records of criminal activity they have been doing, by commiting more crimes,,, WTF!
Can we have an open and honest government, Please?
How f'ing insane is the world where the crooks run the largest information system in the world... (I don't mean NewsCorp, thats still second to governments)
is there anything we can do?
Great article highlighting the need for everyone to have a much higher computer/data security awareness. Check some reinforcing content at the blog, "The Business-Technology Weave" (can Google to it) - it reflects what this article is saying. The majority of breaches are due to human error, therefore awareness and common sense are key, in supporting all necessary best practices. The blog author also has a book we use at work, "I.T. WARS" (you can Google that too). It has a great Security chapter, and others that treat security. Highly recommended. Great stuff.