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Today, October 23, WikiLeaks publishes a statement made by a panel that listened to testimony and reviewed evidence from a whistleblower from the OPCW update. Today, January 30th WikiLeaks publishes a set of documents from the Catholic Church, shedding light on the power struggle within highest offices. Today, 21 December , WikiLeaks publishes a searchable database of more than 16, procurement requests posted by United States embassies around the world. Today, 11 Oct , WikiLeaks publishes a highly confidential internal document from the cloud computing provider Amazon.

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The organization last week was cut off from its provider of domain name system DNS service, which is used to route Internet traffic from a Web address, such as wikiLeaks. The U. The Library of Congress on December 3 confirmed that it is blocking access to the WikiLeaks site across its computer systems, including those for use by patrons in the reading rooms.

Unauthorized disclosures of classified documents do not alter the documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification of the documents," according to a statement on the Library of Congress Web site. Many, but not all, of the documents published as part of "cablegate" contain classified information. Yet, by keeping copies of its Web site hosted at different locations, or "mirror sites," worldwide, WikiLeaks persists.

In general, the organization encrypts its data and keeps the source of its whistle-blower submissions anonymous. In addition, at any given time WikiLeaks computers are feeding hundreds of thousands of fake submissions throughout its network to obscure the real documents, their points of origin and their destinations, The New Yorker reported in June.

A posting on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed Tuesday morning read: "Today's actions against our editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, won't affect our operations: We will release more cables tonight as normal. To better understand how WikiLeaks has been able to keep its Web site functioning despite having incurred the ire of the U. Department of Justice prosecutor of child and computer crimes who has also held high-level cyber security positions at Microsoft and News Corp.

Nigam, who in May founded his own online safety, security and privacy firm called SSP Blue, points out that WikiLeaks 's resilience is an important reminder of the care that must be taken by governments and individuals alike with important information, that once shared, rarely ever goes away completely.

Of course, the cat is fully out of the bag now that media outlets are reporting extensively on the contents of the leaked files, but why couldn't the U. You can shut down a Web site, but there's no question an individual intent on distributing that information will already have thought about keeping a copy of it in multiple other locations, either online or offline.

When you run a Web site, if you're worried about an attack on that Web site, whether it's a distributed denial-of-service attack or some sort of virus attack, the best solution to those worries is to create backup plans. There could be a copy of that information sitting on a thumb drive that everyone buys at Costco for really cheap nowadays. It could be backed up on a CD.

It could be stored with a cloud network storage company that can be accessed from anywhere. That's why this is a pretty significant challenge for the government to try to shut down a site—the task is, frankly, impossible. What can be done to stem the tide of information?

If you think [Assange] has done something criminal in nature and against national security, then focus on the arrest and prosecution, and focus on recovering the diplomatic damage that's already been done. Over the past week, the WikiLeaks Web site has been brought down due to distributed denial-of-service [DOS] attacks, and then subsequently brought back online.

What tools and techniques are available to Web sites to enable them to route and re-route access? One tool is redirection, where you could have 10 different Web site addresses set up that send you to a particular location. Redirects and mirror sites are common and they're necessary in order to run a legitimate business online. Beyond the proactive steps that can be taken, the Web keeps a cache of data even after it has been taken offline.

Assange extradition: Hearing opens with claims of Trump retribution against media. Since May, the Australian national, 48, has been locked up at Belmarsh Prison, a facility that houses some of Britain's most dangerous lawbreakers. Assange is there because he was found guilty of skipping bail in ; he fled to Ecuador's embassy rather than turn himself in to British authorities for possible extradition to Sweden.

At the time, investigators in the Scandinavian country wanted to question him over sexual assault allegations connected to two women. Assange hid from British police in Ecuador's poky red-brick embassy building, just yards from the famous luxury Harrods department store, because he feared Sweden would, in turn, extradite him to the U. The Department of Justice has indicted him on 18 counts, alleging 17 forms of espionage and 1 instance of computer misuse crimes connected to WikiLeaks' dissemination of caches of secret U.

Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. Assange denies all the allegations. The Swedish case has since been dropped. In Britain, he was sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for jumping bail, a period he has already served.

He has been denied bail for his extradition hearing because he is considered a flight risk. Bush because of the feared threats posed by the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, said that Assange's U. He maintains that as a journalist he should be immune from prosecution and that his work revealed embarrassing and highly damaging facts about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the detainees held at the U.

Assange's detractors say he doesn't write stories or interview anyone or provide sufficient explanatory context and that the dissemination of raw, unfiltered documents and data — the publication of stolen classified materials — should not count as journalism.

In fact, Department of Justice officials in President Barack Obama's administration ultimately decided they could not prosecute Assange for revealing national security secrets, described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in U. Generally speaking, the First Amendment, as it applies to the press, restrains the government from jailing, fining or imposing liability for what the press publishes.

On the opening day of Assange's extradition hearing, James Lewis, a British lawyer representing the U. The information Assange published contained about 90, Afghanistan War-related "significant activity" reports, , Iraq War-related reports, Guantanamo Bay "detainee assessment" briefs and , U.

State Department cables. If nothing else, this material illuminated in shocking detail U. WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Journalist or criminal hacker? To his supporters, Assange is a champion of free speech and the public interest whose exceptional computer skills helped him reveal, among other things, video footage allegedly showing U. Christensen represents Australia's right-of-center Liberal National Party.

Still, the U. Demers said when the indictment was announced in May Manning served seven years in prison, including pre-trial custody, before Obama commuted her year prison sentence.

She is now back in jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. Manning, who was convicted of theft and espionage, says she acted on principle when she handed over the top-secret information to WikiLeaks. If Assange is sent to the U. A Department of Justice spokesperson declined to comment on whether there is any evidence that the WikiLeaks disclosures have directly led to injuries or deaths.

To date, no evidence of deaths or injuries precipitated by WikiLeaks' disclosures has emerged and Lewis, the lawyer representing the U. Ecuador insists it kicked Assange out of its embassy after he became an intolerable nuisance at its building in one of London's most upmarket neighborhoods. While living there, Assange occupied about a third of the embassy's rooms with his cat. He brought in a sun lamp, treadmill, stacks of books, computer equipment and insisted on his own fridge. He also regularly hosted well-known guests such as the musician Lady Gaga and the actor Pamela Anderson.

He addressed admirers and gave news conferences from the embassy's tiny balcony — often, as unsuspecting tourists passed by and expensive cars belonging to Harrods' wealthy patrons idled across the street. Due to space constraints, embassy staff had to share a conference room with Assange. One senior diplomat even shared an office with him. Over time, Ecuador says, that's exactly what Assange became, even allegedly going to the unhygienic length of smearing his own excrement on a bathroom wall.

The allegations were first made public in an interview in April with Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno , who also accused Assange of not looking after his cat and attacking the embassy's security staff. No evidence was released to back up the allegations. Assange's supporters and legal team strongly deny the claims, which have not been verified. Ecuador says it has not released additional evidence because of possible legal retribution from Assange.

The situation is complicated by the fact that Ecuador started to reexamine its relationship with Assange around the time Moreno took office in