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| Wikileaks active in Switzerland after further setbacks |
| 2010-12-05 |
| [Ennahar] The address in Switzerland of the site Wikileaks, which began publishing Sunday U.S. secret diplomatic telegrams, was active again on Saturday after a brief hiatus, said the Pirates Party of Switzerland, who argued for freedom on the Internet. Stripped of its website on Friday by its American supplier of domain names EveryDNS.net, the site of revelation of secret documents had found refuge in the morning in Switzerland, under the address wikileaks.ch, no longer operational in the evening. The owner of the domain name "wikileaks.ch" is "the party of the pirates in Switzerland", which claims to support the legalization of file sharing on the Internet and protecting the privacy of Internet users. "Two hours after disabling wikileaks.ch by EveryDNS.net, we acquired a lot of DNS (domain name system) available," says on its website the Pirates' Party of Switzerland, founded in 2009 on the model of Swedish Pirate Party. He has drawn on its website (http://www.pirateparty.ch/wikileaks_ch_blocked) a list of 21 sites where you can see Wikileaks, many located in Europe (wikileaks.nl, wikileaks.de, wikileaks.fi. ..) Denis Simonet, the leader of the Pirate Party of Switzerland, told AFP he registered the domain name wikileaks.ch six months ago. "We did it to support Wikileaks," he said, adding that it was not at the request of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. The U.S. supplier of domain names EveryDNS.net had ceased in the night from Thursday to Friday after its service to wikileaks.org after massive cyber attacks against the site that created the spot in the U.S. and in many capitals publishing secret diplomatic cables. Companies like EveryDNS.net provide domain names and turn them into IP addresses. When service is interrupted, the site is down. |
| Posted by:Fred |