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VVSD: WikiLeaks Shut Down

A court order has shut down the controversial WikiLeaks site.
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From VVSD Newswire Service:

We've received word that courts have responded to a request by the Time News Corp. to shut down the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.  This hours after a statement issued by the lead suspect in the Malaysain Financial Hack claiming that documents acquired during the attack had been sent to the site to be publicized.

WikiLeaks grew to popularity in the mid 00's as a place for people to annonymously release documents to the public.  It rose to fame for its expose on Scientology and has been a regular depository for information acquired in drone attacks.  Critics say the site is harboring criminals, while supporters say the site has been instrumental in bringing to light some of the most important issues of our time.

Previous efforts to shut down the site have stalled due to laws protecting the identities of whistleblowers.  It is believed this attempt to shut down the site has succeeded primarily becauise the would be whistleblower has been identified and is in custody for the crimes in question.  As such the materials in question are property of the courts.  As of yet WikiLeaks has refused to turn over any documents, saying it will appeal the decision, and only make the documents available to the courts if they are also available to the public.

Oct 10
Outlaw Planet,ARK,privacy,hackers,Malyasia,Time News


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  • Winged Cat
    Oct 10
    Approximately 5 hours after this court order came down, Wikileaks' front page was boasting about how they had relocated to a network of undisclosed offshore server farms. Legal questions remain as to whether the courts could attempt to enforce judgement by seizing the wikileaks.org domain name, at least in the DNS servers within the United States. In related news, Wikileaks has posted documents claiming to show that China has now decommissioned the last of its nuclear arsenal, scavenging the warheads to manufacture nuclear reactors. Broadcasts on Chinese state television called the claim absurd - which, for many Chinese, was the first they had heard of the claims, as Wikileaks is among the many sites officially blocked by the Chinese goverment and thus inaccessible to most of its citizens.
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