Wikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud. The release of the documents, collectively dubbed “Cablegate,” has sparked outrage. Wikileaks’ move to the cloud followed a distributed denial of service attack on the site by a self-proclaimed hacktivist calling himself “th3j35t3r,” or “The Jester.” News of the move was posted on the Nanog blog by network analyst Andre Toonk.
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Cloud Gives Wikileaks Elastic DDoS Armor
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 1, 2010 12:01 PMWikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud. The release of the documents, collectively dubbed “Cablegate,” has sparked outrage. Wikileaks’ move to the cloud followed a distributed denial of service attack on the site by a self-proclaimed hacktivist calling himself “th3j35t3r,” or “The Jester.” News of the move was posted on the Nanog blog by network analyst Andre Toonk.