Still working to recover. Please don't edit quite yet.

WikiLeaks: List of mirror sites

From Anarchopedia
Revision as of 13:37, 14 December 2010 by Anarchangel (Talk | contribs) (Expand Lead)

(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search

A number of mirror sites for WikiLeaks have been created as a response to the wikileaks.org domain shutdown by EveryDNS[1] and the Amazon cut.[2]

As of December 7, 2010, WikiLeaks is mirrored on 1005 sites.[3]

The New York Times reported that over 200 WikiLeaks mirror sites sprang up after some hosting companies cut their services to the company.[4] On 5 December, a group of activists and hackers known as "Anonymous" called upon supporters to attack sites of companies that oppose WikiLeaks as part of Operation Avenge Assange.[5] Paypal has been targeted following their decision to stop processing donations for Wikileaks.[6][7] Gregg Housh, who previously worked on other projects with Anonymous, said that he had noticed an organised attempt taking place to attack companies that have not supported WikiLeaks. In reference to the support being shown for Wikileaks, Mr. Housh said; "The reason is amazingly simple, we all believe that information should be free, and the Internet should be free."[8] On 8 December 2010 Paypal website was victim of a Denial-of-service attack by Anonymous.[9][10][11] Later that day, Paypal announced in their blog that they will release all remaining funds in the account to the foundation that was raising funds for WikiLeaks.[12][13] On the same day, the websites of Visa and Mastercard were attacked by WikiLeaks supporters. By then over 1,200 mirror sites had been set up for hosting content no longer accessible at WikiLeaks.com. Anonymous also issued a fresh statement; "While we don't have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same reasons. We want transparency, and we counter censorship...This is why we intend to utilise our resources to raise awareness, attack those against, and support those who are helping lead our world to freedom and democracy."[14]

WikiLeaks announcement[edit]

WikiLeaks announcement requesting help: Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack.
In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help.
if you have a unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to give wikileaks some of your hosting resources, you can help! |WikiLeaks|http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html

Events[edit]

EveryDNS.net[edit]

On 2 December 2010, EveryDNS, a domain name registrar, dropped WikiLeaks from its entries, citing denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) that "threatened the stability of its infrastructure",[15] but the site was still reachable at http://46.59.1.2[16] and http://213.251.145.96, as well as several other addresses.

EveryDNS.net public statement: EveryDNS.net provided domain name system (DNS) services to the wikileaks.org domain name until 10PM EST, December 2, 2010, when such services were terminated. As with other users of the EveryDNS.net network, this service was provided for free. The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy.

More specifically, 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." The interference at issues arises from the fact that wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to almost 500,000 other websites.

Thus, last night, at approximately 10PM EST, December 1, 2010 a 24 hour termination notification email was sent to the email address associated with the wikileaks.org account. In addition to this email, notices were sent to Wikileaks via Twitter and the chat function available through the wikileaks.org website. Any downtime of the wikileaks.org website has resulted from its failure to use another hosted DNS service provider.|EveryDNS.net|December 2, 2010 - 10:00pm, http://www.everydns.com/news

Amazon Web Services[edit]

After the site became the target of a denial-of-service attack from a hacker on its old servers, WikiLeaks moved its site to Amazon's servers.[17] Later, however, the website was "ousted"[17] from the Amazon servers. WikiLeaks then decided to install itself on the servers of OVH in France.[18]

Amazon Web Services statement: There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate.

There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis. AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of service state that “you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity.” It’s clear that WikiLeaks doesn’t own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren’t putting innocent people in jeopardy. Human rights organizations have in fact written to WikiLeaks asking them to exercise caution and not release the names or identities of human rights defenders who might be persecuted by their governments.

We’ve been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that’s perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn’t rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won’t injure others, it’s a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere.

We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months.|Amazon Web Services|http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/

OVH[edit]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iojKm00N9vMvjVGwO2ZNko9rVpBw?docId=CNG.3c86e1065eee2cfd740284f4a84f3555.121

Progress[edit]

Mirrors[edit]

This is a list of WikiLeaks mirrors, sorted by domains, subdomains and IPv6. As of December 7, 2010, WikiLeaks is mirrored on 1005 sites.[3]

Domains[edit]


Subdomains[edit]

}}

IPv6[edit]


Reactions[edit]

In the Netherlands the site http://www.powned.tv/wikileaks/ is active[19]

Dutch public broadcaster PowNed (created in September 2010 by the anti-immigrant blog GeenStijl.nl) is behind this mirrorsite. This caused Dutch polical party CDA (via Member of the House of Representatives Ank Bijleveld) to ask the Dutch cabinet to intervene, stating: "We reckon that a public broadcast should not do this and it is important to make sure that this isn't possible anymore." Dominique Weesie, chairman of that broadcaster, responded by stating: "Bijleveld would be great in North Korea. The Wikileaks mirror on PowNed stays just where it is."[19]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ http://www.everydns.com/news
  2. ↑ http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://46.59.1.2/mirrors.html
  4. ↑ More than 200 sites copy WikiLeaks content. UPI.com. URL accessed on 8 December 2010.
  5. ↑ Mackey, Robert Latest Updates on Leak of U.S. Cables, Day 9. The New York Times. URL accessed on 7 December 2010.
  6. ↑ Leyden, John Anonymous attacks PayPal in 'Operation Avenge Assange'. theregister.co.uk. The Register. URL accessed on 7 December 2010.
  7. ↑ Operaton Avenge Assange manifesto. URL accessed on 7 December 2010.
  8. ↑ Somaiya, Ravi (5 December 2010). "WikiLeaks Mirror Sites Appear by the Hundreds". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/world/europe/06wiki.html?_r=1. Retrieved 7 December 2010. </li>
  9. ↑ Esther Addley and Josh Halliday. WikiLeaks supporters disrupt Visa and MasterCard sites in 'Operation Payback'. guardian.co.ul. URL accessed on 2010-12-09.
  10. ↑ Horn, Leslie 'Anonymous' Launches DDoS Attacks Against WikiLeaks Foes. pcmag.com. Pc Magazine. URL accessed on 9 December 2010.
  11. ↑ Xeni Jardin. Continuing pro-Wikileaks DDOS actions, Anonymous takes down PayPal.com. boingboing.net. Boing Boing. URL accessed on 9 December 2010.
  12. ↑ Muller, John Updated Statement about WikiLeaks from PayPal General Counsel, John Muller. thepaypalblog.com. PayPal. URL accessed on 9 December 2010.
  13. ↑ Vasquez, Bertrand PayPal Vows to Release WikiLeaks Funds, Account to Remain Blocked. erictric.com. Erictric. URL accessed on 9 December 2010.
  14. ↑ Visa, MasterCard targeted by WikiLeaks allies. Beta.ca.news.yahoo.com. URL accessed on 2010-12-10.
  15. ↑ Satter, Raphael G.; Svensson, Peter (3 December 2010) "WikiLeaks Fights To Stay Online Amid Attacks". Associated Press (via The Charlotte Observer). Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  16. ↑ http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=cablegate.wikileaks.org
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Gross, Doug WikiLeaks cut off from Amazon servers. CNN. URL accessed on 2 December 2010.
  18. ↑ (French) Expulsé d'Amazon, WikiLeaks trouve refuge en France. 2 December 2010, Le Point
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/politiek/2010/12/cda_hekelt_pownedmirror_wikile.html

    20. </ol>

External links[edit]

Retrieved from "http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php?title=WikiLeaks:_List_of_mirror_sites&oldid=45413"