Cloud support brings WikiLeaks back online
We're working on it says AntiLeaks
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After being taken out for ten days by a DDoS attack the WikiLeaks site is back online, thanks to some cloudy support from CloudFlare.
The organization said that it had approached CloudFlare about hosting its site, since it has massive capacity and good systems for spotting an blocking DDoS attacks. WikiLeaks said it was originally turned down, but this was due to an error, the hosting company explained in a tweet.
Now WikiLeaks is back online and from the postings the organization is making its mood is combative.
Is that all your've got? Keep attacking, our skin just gets harder. DDoS proof, financially & geographically diverse. We're ready to rumble.
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 13, 2012
Meanwhile, what of AntiLeaks, which claims to be responsible for the takedown? The spokesman for the group earlier said that the attacks on the site would continue indefinitely, but the shift to the cloud on Tuesday has caused some problems and the group is working on a way to bring down the WikiLeaks site again.
"WikiLeaks web server is now hidden behind five CloudFlare servers. CloudFlare isn't actually hosting WikiLeaks content itself but acts as a reverse web proxy. This makes it especially difficult to attack WikiLeaks, as each CloudFlare server can handle 10gb/second," AntiLeaks spokesman DietPepsi said in an email to El Reg.
"I am in the process of finding the actual IP address of WikiLeaks web server. I have a couple of leads and believe I will be able to do it, however it will take some time."
Meanwhile, in Ecuador
In the meantime there's been considerable kerfuffle over the fate of Julian Assange's future.
The UK's Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Ecuadorian government has decided to grant Assange political asylum in their country. Assange is approaching his 60th day trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and a senior government source told the paper that Assange had been cleared.
"We see Assange's request as a humanitarian issue. The contact between the Ecuadorean government and WikiLeaks goes back to May 2011, when we became the first country to see the leaked US embassy cables completely declassified," the official said.
"It is clear that when Julian entered the embassy there was already some sort of deal. We see in his work a parallel with our struggle for national sovereignty and the democratisation of international relations."
However, the story brought a sharp rebuttal from the Ecuadorian president, who said the situation was still being considered. ®
Rumor de asilo a Assange es falso. Todavía no hay ninguna decisión al respecto. Espero informe de Cancillería.
— Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) August 14, 2012
COMMENTS
"I am in the process of finding the actual IP..."
Interesting for a spokesman to start using the singular first person. Did his friend have to go home for tea or something?
You will probably find
That Anti-leaks is run by a group of All American tweenagers and teenagers, and the delay is because their moms have called them home for tea.
What naughty boys they are!
Mob Rule and Merkins
What Wikileaks does, and how, is worthy of serious debate. On the other hand; Antileaks has shown themselves to be little more than a self-righteous, angry mob which seeks to simply beat the crap out of those they dislike to silence them. Way to go in confirming widely held stereotypes of America and Americans.
A head-on ruck with Anonymous should reveal who's the hardest top dog when it comes to beating up the other guy. Bring 'em on.
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