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WikiLeaks vows to never say die with 355 new websites

Under heavy attack, WikiLeaks has asked the Web community to build mirror sites so it can't be downed or censored

WikiLeaks has asked the Web community to open mirror sites so it cannot be downed or censored and said Monday that 355 new sites are already up.

"Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack," the group said on its website. "In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help."

The site is asking people with Unix-based servers and excess hosting resources to answer its call. WikiLeaks' entire website "should not take more than a couple of GB at the moment," it said.

Mirror sites are additional websites that have all of the same information as the original site and are updated automatically each time the original site adds new content. WikiLeaks hopes the new sites can ensure the survival of the mass of leaked documents, videos and other data it has collected and published.

Last Friday, the controversial website could not be accessed through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after EveryDNS.net terminated its domain name service over repeated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against WikiLeaks.

The U.S.-based service provider said it did provide prior notice. The move came just days after Amazon Web Services stopped hosting WikiLeaks on its servers for breaking user rules saying that websites must use their own content and not carry data that might injure others.

The U.S. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman, had also asked Amazon to stop hosting the controversial website.

WikiLeaks has come under fire for publishing classified U.S. documents, including videos and documents from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as sensitive cables sent between U.S. embassies and the U.S. State Department. WikiLeaks continues to post the cables.

WikiLeaks has faced a number of DDOS attacks, designed to knock out access to the website. WikiLeaks.org appears to still be offline. New links to WikiLeaks from the company's Twitter feed are going to WikiLeaks.ch.

Netcraft, which tracks web attacks, shows in a series of graphs that WikiLeaks.org has been down since last Friday.

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joseph Cuthill-Coutts

Tue 07/12/2010 - 14:08

I just want to say how much wikileaks has done for our world so far.. already Govt is changing directions , changing their diplomatic styles, their people and the way they have previously carried out their decieptful diplomatic relations at our expense.
With no Quality assurance over our Global Govt's the world was always under a giant threat of lies and fraud from our politicians. wikileaks is a Truth and the truth hurts when you have been caught red handed lying.. i strongly support wikiLeaks for their courage, research and determination to help us, the ordinary people in this world to understand what these cronies have been up to.. a world where we have been paying unexcusible wastful people to carry out governence in a gisgraceful and unethical way for too long. Whatever happens to Wikileaks, It has changed our world already and that is now irriversable whether you like it or not .. USA go suck.. and as for our own Australian prime minister she can go suck to.. Infrastructure exposure is the latest and they blame wikileaks..
Um the darwin water pipe line should be added to this list along with every other exposed waterline in Australia.. Set fire to australia... yes that is another one.. You could burn out australia overnight. Terrorists are usually quite dumb.. but angry people who are used and abused by their own govts are just ordanary you and me.. And we are often more educated than the terrorist... Governments are now so terrified of their enadequate ways and fraudulent past that they can order police to kill you with no accountability.. A revolution will most likley occur on the present political courses of global leaders.. people will only take so much.. People are educated and our politicians are under threat.. No longer is it just the rich that can read and write. Some politicians cannot read or write now..
Politicans are becoming outdated car sales people and are under the most serious threat of all.. And that is being held accountable for everythig that they say, do ,spend, achieve and promise. Just like the rest of the global people need to do every day.. Other wise we the people go to jail or are shot or fined or are kicked out of office or job.. Hillary Clinton woulod have to be a first one to go followed by the UN in it's present form.

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