OMG Amazon down

meghatronic said:
Not quite - their site was hosted with Amazons distributed/cloud servers and they pulled the plug for breaching TOS/government pressure.

Besides, it isn't anon (cf. IRC).
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Yes, but they did have an Amazon account donation, as I looked on the website myself and saw all the ways you could provide money to support them.
 
This kind of thing is going to be the reason a lot of larger companies are (or should be...) worried about cloud computing and the various flavours of outsourcing their platforms... I noticed one major high street retailer who uses Amazon to host their web presence was also down.
 
Castiel said:
The minute people begin to be inconvenienced by actions related to Wikileaks is the time when any public support they have will begin to disappear....

The crackers/hackers or cyber-terrorists/freedom fighters or whatever you wish to call them will only hurt wikileaks in the long run.

They would be better off targeting .gov sites.
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Who would notice if they targeted gov sites?
 
It's probably having problems because it's being hammered from people buying music. Sunday night's the busiest night of internet shopping.

Castiel said:
The media for a start, especially if it were something high profile.
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What media attention? People en mass are stupid and live within their own bubble.

Headlines in the next few days will be dominated more by the X Factor final. :rolleyes: :(
 
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Castiel said:
The media for a start, especially if it were something high profile.
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Yeah well that's if the media notices. I would be more impressed with Amazon going down. Or possibly a US gov website. But UK gov websites - pff who cares?
 
I would have a lot more sympathy for wikileaks if they revealed something shocking like they had covered up Roswell, or 9/11 really was an inside job. But in reality it's nothing information of little real interest.
 
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