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WikiLeaks Shelters in Amazon Servers. WikiLeaks, Amazon and the new threat to internet speech. Rebecca MacKinnon says many differ on whether media should publish WikiLeaks cablesWhat's troubling, she says, is that Sen. Joe Lieberman can get Amazon to dump it from serverShe asks: What are private sector's responsibilities to prevent erosion of free speech? Writer: Future of free speech on internet turns on companies' accountability to public interest Editor's note: Rebecca MacKinnon is a Bernard L.

Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, co-founder of the international bloggers' network Global Voices Online and a founding member of the Global Network Initiative. Her book, "Consent of the Networked," will be published late next year by Basic Books. (CNN) -- In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man. In the virtual world, his website is under attack and on the run. There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. Amazon Unplugs WikiLeaks After Government Pressure: Tech News ?

Amazon Bans WikiLeaks From Its Servers. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has been kicked off Amazon.com’s U.S. servers after moving its operations just a day ago. The move by Amazon comes after questioning from U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the House Security Committee. “This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the Wikileaks website,” Sen. Lieberman said in a statement . “I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on Wikileaks’ previous publication of classified material.

WikiLeaks has been the center of attention this week due to its release of more than 250,000 sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables . Yesterday, in an attempt to thwart the DDoS attacks, WikiLeaks moved its operations from its Swedish servers to Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing and hosting platform. Amazon isn’t saying why it kicked WikiLeaks to the curb. That’s not the only problem plaguing it, either. Amazon: Wikileaks has no right to publish the leaks. Amazon claims that Wikileaks doesn't have rights in the leaked material, and hence was in violation of its terms of service. Here's its statement: There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate.

There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against. Does this add up? Message. There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate. There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis. We’ve been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months. — Amazon Web Services. Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us. Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle Devices. Hal Roberts / Amazon’s Wikileaks Takedown. For the past year, I’ve been working on a study on distributed denial of service (ddos) attacks against independent media and human rights sites with colleagues at the Berkman Center.

The resulting report will be out shortly, but one of the main conclusions is that independent media sites are not capable of independently defending themselves of large, network based ddos attacks. There are many things an independent site can do to protect itself against smaller ddos attacks that target specific application vulnerabilities (including simply serving static content), but the problem with a large, network based attack is that it will flood the link between the targeted site and the rest of the Internet, usually causing the hosting ISP to take the targeted site down entirely to protect the rest of its network. So with this context, I’ve been watching the Wikileaks attack with great interest. Operation Payback: TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM LOC...

Operation Payback Targets Amazon.com. A collective of hackers who have set their sights on those companies that have denied service to WikiLeaks and its founder are now trying to take down Amazon.com. They announced via Twitter that they would begin their attack at 11 a.m. ET, but so far the site appears to be operational. Mashable also received the below e-mail: "I am part of the attack going on with Paypal, Mastercard and soon to be Amazon. We have reached out to the sender for more info. Anonymous, who is said to be heading up a campaign called "Operation Payback" (for more on what they're about, check out the video below), is a loose collective of "hacktivists" who have allegedly been targeting sites such as Visa and Mastercard, companies that have ceased delivery of funds that had been donated to WikiLeaks. This morning, a Twitter account called @Op_Payback announced that it would be taking down Amazon.com, which ousted WikiLeaks from its servers at the beginning of December.

Amazon says outage in Europe due to hardware failure, not hacking attack | Technology. Amazon says that the outage which made its UK, Italian, German and Spanish sites unavailable for about half an hour on Sunday night was due to a hardware failure, and not an attack by online activists angry at its stance on WikiLeaks. "The brief interruption to our European retail sites earlier today was due to hardware failure in our European datacenter network and not the result of a DDOS attempt," a spokeswoman for Amazon told Reuters.

The different countries' sites are all served through systems there. Amazon was among the first American companies to stop providing services to WikiLeaks when it took the site off its EC2 cloud computing service at the end of November. That followed political pressure in the US, though Amazon insisted the decision was because WikiLeaks did not have the rights to the content. The loose grouping of activists operating under the name "Anonymous" had urged an online attack to crash the amazon.com site by overwhelming it with requests from users. Amazon-Wahrnehmung leidet unter Wikileaks-Sperrung - Marketingstrategie - News - absatzwirtschaft. 23.12.2010. Berichte über Wikileaks und Julian Assange dominieren weltweit die Nachrichten. Nun geraten auch erste Unternehmen aufgrund ihres Auftretens gegenüber Wikileaks unter Druck.

Der Online-Einzelhändler Amazon bestreitet öffentlich, die Enthüllungsplattform auf politischen Druck von seinen Servern ausgeschlossen zu haben. Die Begründung, Wikileaks habe gegen die Nutzungsbedingungen verstoßen, scheint die Deutschen allerdings nicht zu überzeugen. „Unsere Daten zeigen, dass die Marke Amazon seit Bekanntwerden der Wikileaks-Sperrung deutlich stärker in den Köpfen der Deutschen, Briten und US-Amerikaner präsent ist als zuvor. Geißler erläutert, warum dies für die betroffenen Unternehmen kritisch werden kann: „Der Buzz-Wert ist ein treffsicherer Indikator für die kurzfristige Wahrnehmung einer Marke.“ Gerade während des Weihnachtsgeschäftes könne dies zu Umsatzeinbrüchen führen, wie auch kritische Kommentare in Nutzerforen vermuten ließen.