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    Whistle-blower site taken offline

    Whistle-blower site taken offline


    A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.
    Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.

    The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities.

    Other versions of the pages, hosted in countries such as Belgium and India, can still be accessed.

    However, the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site's domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers.

    The court also ordered that Dynadot should "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court."

    Other orders included that the domain name be locked "to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar" to prevent changes being made to the site.

    Wikileaks claimed that the order was "unconstitutional" and said that the site had been "forcibly censored".

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    The case was brought by lawyers working for the Swiss banking group Julius Baer. It concerned several documents posted on the site which allegedly reveal that the bank was involved with money laundering and tax evasion.


    The documents were allegedly posted by Rudolf Elmer, former vice president of the bank's Cayman Island's operation.

    A spokesperson for Julius Baer said he could not comment on the case because of "pending legal proceedings".

    The BBC understands that Julius Baer asked for the documents to be removed because they could have an impact on a separate legal case ongoing in Switzerland.

    The court hearing took place last week and Dynadot blocked access from Friday evening.

    Wikileaks says it was not represented at the hearing because it was "given only hours notice" via e-mail.

    A document signed by Judge Jeffery White, who presided over the case, ordered Dynadot to follow six court orders.

    As well as removing all records of the site form its servers, the hosting and domain name firm was ordered to produce "all prior or previous administrative and account records and data for the wikileaks.org domain name and account".

    The order also demanded that details of the site's registrant, contacts, payment records and "IP addresses and associated data used by any person...who accessed the account for the domain name" to be handed over.

    Wikileaks allows users to post documents anonymously.

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    The site was founded in 2006 by dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa.

    It so far claims to have published more than 1.2 million documents.

    It provoked controversy when it first appeared on the net with many commentators questioning the motives of the people behind the site.

    It recently made available a confidential briefing document relating to the collapse of the UK's Northern Rock bank.

    Lawyers working on behalf of the bank attempted to have the documents removed from the site. They can still be accessed.

    Dynadot was contacted for this article but have so far not responded to requests for comment.


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    That is a no no... You cannot disclose company documents on the open Internet for people to see. The information is the property of the company in question. You could mention things that make to much sense as to speculate on what is going on but out right copy materials for publish my gosh. Lawyers will have a field day with that one. Getting fired would be the nicest thing that would come out of it for the person who did it.

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    Because that information...

    ...was on the Internet, all of it would have traveled in every direction and by every method possible in a second; too far for any serious retrieval...

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    Seriously, really-really...

    ...and using just ONE FACTITIOUS PUBLIC internet forum example instead of any of the many actual billions of Web sites and their own loglinks, public Web logs and private Web logs, please, think this through. (After all, others already do):

    A group of people set up a public Web log.

    People register an actual name or a username--either way, there is a findable count.

    SOME of those people Submit; many do not, but they are a findable count.

    A public blog also has a findable "hits" list--people who can read at the public blog but choose not to submit any comments.

    No matter what, NO public forum has to stay in one parochial place.

    In comparison to how vast the www is, Western New York is minute.

    This is the 'Seriously, really-really...' part:

    Besides the countable people who put themselves in upfront visibility, and those who choose to read but not post and are also countable, and besides any Internet site's/log's "hits' count:::

    *~There are also people who can and most certainly DO read at public forums then can cut, past, copy, save, print, "thumbthingy", teletalk, snailmail, tell some one else to "check this out!", etc.~

    Those *~people~ are an already-grown legion. They are creating a legacy that becomes legendary, AND it only takes a fraction of a second!

    Also, imagine this most singular possibility: A college student needs info for a human psychology course, finds a site or log loaded with good stuff, then uses every means available to present what was found to a class.

    And that is just one college student in one class!!!...

    (Using three dots used to only mean there was more said but, I started using three dots to mean think further on your own... I don't mean that as an insult. I mean YOU CAN DO IT! YES YOU CAN!)

    There is NO WAY to stop what got on the Internet; no way, no how!

    "Gone fishin". Be back in a a few days. gsip

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concerned in Buffalo
    ...and using just ONE FACTITIOUS PUBLIC internet forum example instead of any of the many actual billions of Web sites and their own loglinks, public Web logs and private Web logs, please, think this through. (After all, others already do):

    A group of people set up a public Web log.

    People register an actual name or a username--either way, there is a findable count.

    SOME of those people Submit; many do not, but they are a findable count.

    A public blog also has a findable "hits" list--people who can read at the public blog but choose not to submit any comments.

    No matter what, NO public forum has to stay in one parochial place.

    In comparison to how vast the www is, Western New York is minute.

    This is the 'Seriously, really-really...' part:

    Besides the countable people who put themselves in upfront visibility, and those who choose to read but not post and are also countable, and besides any Internet site's/log's "hits' count:::

    *~There are also people who can and most certainly DO read at public forums then can cut, past, copy, save, print, "thumbthingy", teletalk, snailmail, tell some one else to "check this out!", etc.~

    Those *~people~ are an already-grown legion. They are creating a legacy that becomes legendary, AND it only takes a fraction of a second!

    Also, imagine this most singular possibility: A college student needs info for a human psychology course, finds a site or log loaded with good stuff, then uses every means available to present what was found to a class.

    And that is just one college student in one class!!!...

    (Using three dots used to only mean there was more said but, I started using three dots to mean think further on your own... I don't mean that as an insult. I mean YOU CAN DO IT! YES YOU CAN!)

    There is NO WAY to stop what got on the Internet; no way, no how!

    "Gone fishin". Be back in a a few days. gsip
    WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???????? Did someone spike your tea or coffee again??? If something happened to you on the Internet there are ways to deal with whatever happened.

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    & cell phones-how could I forget cell phones!..

    ...I daknow!
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    In reference to my 'Gone fishin', many WNYers enjoy setting up on ice. Its too brrr for many other "well-seasoned/well-reasoned" people though.

    Many who are among the Older&Wiser bunch go on different forms of "fishin" expedition in WNY.

    The 'Ole Oaken Bucket Bunch amuse themselves in a way I will explain later.

    First I will catch up on my posts...

    gsip

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concerned in Buffalo
    ...I daknow!
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    In reference to my 'Gone fishin', many WNYers enjoy setting up on ice. Its too brrr for many other "well-seasoned/well-reasoned" people though.

    Many who are among the Older&Wiser bunch go on different forms of "fishin" expedition in WNY.

    The 'Ole Oaken Bucket Bunch amuse themselves in a way I will explain later.

    First I will catch up on my posts...

    gsip

    brain damage??..apparently so....

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