Wiki Leaks-- Under Cyber Attack?
Wikileaks documents reveal sensitive U.S. cables
From Reuters November 28, 2010
11:07 a.m
U.S. State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
The documents show Saudi donors remain chief financiers of militant groups like al Qaeda and that Chinese government operatives have waged a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage targeting the United States and its allies, according to a review of the WikiLeaks documents published in the Times.
The WikiLeaks documents also show U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes any military strike on Iran would only delay its pursuit of a nuclear weapon by one to three years, the Times reported on its website on Sunday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-wikileaks-web-20111129,0,207083.story
Maybe Not
WikiLeaks says it is under cyber attack: Twitter feed
– 2 hrs 20 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) – WikiLeaks said Sunday it was under a cyber attack but stressed this would not stop the publication of classified US documents, in a message on Twitter.
"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," the whistle-blower website said in a statement on its Twitter feed, just hours before an expected mass release of the documents.
But it insisted that the Spanish, French, German, British and US newspapers that were planning to publish the information later Sunday would go ahead, in the face of strong opposition from the United States.
"El Pais, Le Monde, Spiegel, Guardian and NYT (the New York Times) will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down," it said.
The WikiLeaks website was not immediately accessible
The Chinese cyber attacks are old news...but the fact the U.S. confirms what we knew is not.
ReplyDeleteSucks to be wikileaks.
I had nothing to do with it.
Bits and pieces of the leaked information is starting to pop up around the world.. including from the NY Times..
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Wikileaks really gave for all this stuff. We've heard nothing further on the individual (Army was it?) who gave the stuff over, but how did he gain access? The silence on that breech is absolute.
ReplyDeleteSomething's fishy.
I haven't had time to read the leaked material. Maybe tomorrow.
Okay, I checked, they threw twenty-two or so year old, Pfc. Bradley Manning, into the brig - solitary confinement. How was he able to get into all of those files with zero detection by the system. There was no "need to know" based on his published job tasks. Some articles suggest his friends were "hackers" and that can be a pretty saavy bunch. It's a weird story...I think I'll have to wait for the movie version. I took a quick look at what the NY Times and Guardian published...nothing surprising...so far.
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ReplyDeleteThe releases seem to confirm some thing you've said about Afghan corruption.