Why WikiLeaks will not be silenced

[Joanne98]

Shadowy government agencies around the world are probably scratching their heads this morning, as they try to come up with yet another way of silencing WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website that delights in publishing confidential documents and briefing notes, to the great embarrassment and irritation of those in authority.

The site is showing remarkable resilience. Despite being under constant distributed denial of service attacks that are resulting in intermittent availability, Wikileaks has survived being kicked off Amazon’s servers (after alleged pressure from the US government), and having support for its domain name withdrawn by its provider.

It will take more than that to put Julian Assange off his stride. Wikileaks has simply moved its services to Switzerland, Sweden and France, and remains, for the most part, up and running.

Assange is a shrewd and calculating individual, certain in the righteousness of the site he founded. But he is also aware of the ill-feeling towards him from some figures in authority. Rumours abound that Wikileaks has seeded an almost impenetrably encrypted document, full of scandalous information, to various freedom of speech campaigners and hacking groups.

It is suggested that, if anything were to happen to the Wikileaks site, or to Assange himself, the key to unlock that code would be made available, and with it, a new wave of potentially embarrassing and damaging documents.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8179161/Why-WikiLeaks-will-not-be-silenced.html