Internet blackouts: Reaching for the kill switch. Legal comment from Carl Gardner. WikiLeaks US embassy cables: live updates. 7.52am: MasterCard, Visa, the Swedish prosecution authority, Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, PayPal, Twitter, PostFinance, Amazon and EveryDNS.net.
It is an very eclectic mix, but their websites are all under attack, or threat of attack, by supporters of WikiLeaks. A full account of Operation Payback and its "major shitstorm" is available here. The Daily Mail is alarmed. "WIKILEAKS: NOW IT'S CYBER WAR", shouts its front page. Charonpodcast173.