Wikileaks evades hackers with shift to Amazon | Media. Wikileaks, the site that has infuriated the US government by releasing thousands of US diplomatic cables, is being hosted by one of the symbols of that country's internet success - Amazon. The site came under a "Distributed Denial of Service" (DDOS) attack on Sunday night from an unidentified hacker, forcing it to seek a new location for its computer files. And it found it through Amazon's "Elastic Cloud Computing" (EC2) service, which enables businesses to hire its servers and store their data there.
DDOS attacks typically force sites off the net unless they have enormous bandwidth at their disposal or highly effective countermeasures. Wikileaks, being small and struggling for funds, is neither. But EC2 allows companies to pay for their usage as it mounts up, rather than upfront. The use of Amazon's EC2 is therefore more likely to be a convenient way of evading the DDOS attack. Norcliffe says that the Wikileaks war logs were also hosted on Amazon EC2. WikiLeaks Relying on Amazon.com.
FILE: Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks to members of the media during a debate event held in London. (AP) Despite outcry over the controversial information, Amazon.com's servers are still hosting leaked documents from WikiLeaks that government officials call a threat to national security. Computers run by Amazon's Elastic Web Compute (EC2) service in Tulsa, Portland, New York and elsewhere host the site cablegate.wikileaks.org, noted the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, as well as Wikileaks.org, the controversial site’s front page.
Amazon did not return several FoxNews.com requests for comment on the content, which has prompted nationwide outrage and worldwide concern. "I'll be very surprised if some people don't lose their lives," former president Bill Clinton said in a speech in North Carolina about the massive leak of diplomatic documents and cables, the latest from whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and its leader Julian Assange.
Calls to Boycott Amazon Spring Up Over Hosting of WikiLeaks Servers. Facing Lieberman Boycott, Amazon Ousts WikiLeaks. Amazon pulls WikiLeaks plug. News December 1, 2010 04:00 PM ET Computerworld - Amazon has pulled the plug on WikiLeaks, the site that earlier this week began releasing a mammoth collection of confidential U.S. State Department diplomatic cables. "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted," said WikiLeaks around 3 p.m. Eastern time on its Twitter account. "Free speech the land of the free ... fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe. " According to reverse IP traces run by Computerworld, WikiLeaks is now hosted by a Swedish firm, Bahnhof Internet AB, which is headquartered in Uppsala, a city approximately 44 miles north of Stockholm.
As of 3:30 p.m. A subsidiary site, Cablegate.wikileaks.org, where the organization has published the full text of more than 500 of the over 250,000 cables in its possession, was also operational. Earlier in the week, the Cablegate site had been hosted by a French firm. According to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor Networks, the DoS attacks continued throughout Wednesday morning. Amazon Pulls Plug on WikiLeaks. FILE: Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks to members of the media during a debate event held in London.AP Amazon.com has severed ties with controversial website WikiLeaks, the organization that just released a trove of sensitive U.S.
State Department documents. Computers run by Amazon's Elastic Web Compute service in Tulsa, Portland, New York and elsewhere had been hosting the site cablegate.WikiLeaks.org, the Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday, as well as WikiLeaks.org, the controversial site’s front page. On Wednesday, the main website and the "cablegate" sub-site devoted to the diplomatic documents were unavailable from the U.S. and Europe. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said that Amazon told him of the decision to end the relationship between the two companies.
"This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the WikiLeaks website," Liberman said in a public statement. Amazon n'héberge plus Wikileaks après des pressions politiques et commerciales. Après une interruption de service dans la journée, le site Wikileaks n'est plus hébergé par le cloud d'Amazon, qui avait été utilisé suite à une attaque DDOS pour la diffusion des cables diplomatiques. L'information est confirmée par les registres DNS qui montrent que le site est de nouveau hébergé par Bahnhof, un hébergeur suédois. Les raisons de la coupure n'ont pas été avancées par Amazon, qui n'a pas voulu ni confirmer ni infirmer s'il avait été contraint de suspendre l'hébergement de Wikileaks.
Cependant, la pression montait ces dernières heures sur le site marchand américain, qui propose une activité d'hébergement très populaire, l'Elastic Web Compute (EC2), très flexible et relativement peu coûteuse. Des élus américains ont publiquement critiqué Amazon, accusé d'être complice de la violation des secrets diplomatiques américains, voire de recel d'espionnage. Amazon.com stops hosting WikiLeaks on its servers. Amazon Ousts WikiLeaks at Officials’ Behest.
Major Internet retailer Amazon.com is facing a growing public backlash and a call for boycotts, including a call by Antiwar.com, following its decision this morning to oust WikiLeaks.org from its cloud server hosting service. The move came following pressure from a number of top officials, including Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT), who slammed Amazon’s decision in allowing the whistleblower to host information embarrassing to the US government.
Amazon.com has refused to comment on its removal but appears to have done so without giving WikiLeaks advanced notice, leaving their site down for much of the morning. The site is now back up and is based in Uppsala, Sweden. The new host in Bahnhof Internet AB. WikiLeaks condemned the decision, saying “if Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books.” A number of consumers have already vowed to boycott Amazon over the decision. And praise from Sen. Last 5 posts by Jason Ditz. Amazon boycotte Wikileaks, boycottez Amazon. We Didn’t Pull Down WikiLeaks Because Of Gov’t, There Was a ToS Violation. Amazon assume l'expulsion de Wikileaks qu'il critique s?v?rement. Mercredi, dans un premier temps, Amazon avait refusé de donner des explications au fait qu'il n'hébergeait plus le site Wikileaks.
Nous avons toutefois relevé que le marchand en ligne, qui propose ses services d'hébergement, avait fait l'objet de pressions à la fois politiques et commerciales. "Toujours délicates aux Etats-Unis dès qu'il s'agit de protéger l'armée et la sécurité de la nation", écrivions-nous. Jeudi, Amazon s'est finalement expliqué, dans un billet de blog qui vu de France paraît extrêmement étonnant, à la fois dans sa sincérité brute du propos et dans le précédent qu'il risque de créer pour les activités d'hébergement. S'il nie avoir agi sous la pression des autorités publiques, Amazon reconnaît sans rougir que sa décision de mettre fin au contrat de Wikileaks a été prise pour des motifs politiques et juridiques (les mises en gras sont de nous) : Amazon Web Services (AWS) loue des infrastructures informatiques sur une base de libre-service.