L'Europe en pointe pour le soutien à Wikileaks. Suite aux attaques répétées contre Wikileaks, les sites miroirs, des sites qui hébergent l’intégralité des données sur leurs serveurs, se sont multipliés (près de 1700 pour le moment, mais le chiffre augmente en permanence). Liberation.fr participe également à ce mouvement, et a lancé wikileaks.liberation.fr. Gregor Aisch, développeur allemand en «visualisations interactives d’informations», a créé une carte recensant et localisant en temps réel tous les sites qui protègent ainsi les données de Wikileaks. Depuis le 5 décembre, le planisphère se constelle de plus en plus vite de petits points blancs. (cliquez-ici pour retrouver la carte en grand format et interactive) Si on s’aperçoit que le mouvement est mondial, l’Europe et l’Amérique du Nord sont tout de même, et de très loin, les deux principaux continents hébergeurs. De voir ces pays à la pointe de ce «combat» n’est pas vraiment une surprise.
L’Angleterre, mais surtout l’Espagne ou l’Italie sont un peu moins mobilisés. «Libération» abrite WikiLeaks. Le bunker très classe qui héberge Wikileaks. L'hébergeur suédois indépendant Bahnof (qui héberge par exemple Wikileaks depuis quelques mois) occupe probablement les locaux les plus cools de l'univers. Les sacripants occupent en fait un ancien bunker anti-atomique datant de la guerre froide qu'ils ont transformés en bureaux et en salles de serveur digne d'un James Bond. width="450" height="278"> En plus de cette vidéo, une série de photos à 360° est disponible à cette adresse . Lire les réactions à cet article. François ARIAS. Where In the World Is WikiLeaks Mirrored? [Google Earth] The WikiLeaks saga of the last two weeks has been illustrative, if nothing else, of the importance of the decentralization of the Internet in relation to the freedom of information.
An attempt to stifle a voice in one location simply leads to that voice springing from another, like a leak from a rusted pipe or a Whac-A-Mole arcade game. WikiLeaks Coverage From ReadWriteWeb: In order to create the visualization, Laurence Muller wrote a PHP script to scrape the primary list of WikiLeaks mirrors on the WikiLeaks site. He found 1,334 URLs and used GeoLite City to resolve each of them to a relatively specific (city-wide) geospatial location. Finally, he converted the list of related URLs, IP addresses and longitude/latitude coordinates into KML format for use with Google Earth. The result is a series of pins on a 3D globe showing all of the locations, globally, where WikiLeaks data is being mirrored. Canadian firm caught up in Wiki wars. Mark Jeftovic didn't know his company had somehow managed to kick WikiLeaks off the Internet until he read it on a blog one morning while eating breakfast. And he never would have guessed he would then find himself working with the controversial website, which is under fire for publishing classified government documents on the Internet.
The strange turn of events all began with a blogger's typo. "It's all so Kafka-esque and surreal in the sense that I just wasn't hugely ideologically supportive of WikiLeaks before all of this happened," said the president of Toronto-based EasyDNS, which helps route traffic on the Internet. The nimble Canadian firm was drawn to the battle as hackers on both sides of the issue furiously attack computers in a bid to advance their causes.
Mastercard Inc., PayPal and Amazon were among the companies targeted Wednesday by WikiLeaks supporters after they said they wouldn't deal with the site. It all started for Mr. Mr. Wikipedia Editors Delete Article Listing WikiLeaks Mirror Sites. One such listing of these sites hosted on name-in-kind service Wikipedia has been deleted by the collaborative encyclopedia's editors. Should we cry "Foul! " or is the deletion just more business as usual for the site? If you take a look at the discussion page for the deletion of the "List of WikiLeaks mirrors" page, you can see some of the views for and against its deletion. While proponents argue that the list of links should be kept until WikiLeaks finds more stable hosting, or that it offers a value outside of just listing links, most opponents cite clear WikiLeaks policy stating that "Wikipedia is not a mirror or repository of links.
" In the end, and despite all of the lofty debate, the article's removal looks like a simple matter of policy. WikiLeaks Coverage From ReadWriteWeb: We got in touch with Wikipedia's parent organization, Wikimedia, to find out what was really going on.