{"id":10830,"date":"2010-12-03T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2010-12-03T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:05:37","slug":"poetic-justice-wikileaks-org-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/poetic-justice-wikileaks-org-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetic justice: Wikileaks.org down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been subject to a denial of service attack, apparently. Those who live by the hack will die by the hack.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Jester\" src=\"http:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/U.S.\/397\/224\/jester%20twitter%20real.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"273\" height=\"154\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/12\/03\/patriotic-hactivist-took-down-wikileaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What goes around comes around: Someone is hacking the hacktivist. And it may be none other than the hacktivist himself.<\/p>\n<p>A self-described patriotic hacktivist known as \u201cThe Jester\u201d \u2014 who has garnered a reputation for taking down jihadist websites and is believed by those familiar with his work to be responsible for taking WikiLeaks offline during its recent dump of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/state-department.htm#r_src=ramp\">State Department<\/a> cables \u2014 is claiming to be the victim himself of an online impostor trying to cash in on his name.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s hardly all there is to the story.<\/p>\n<p>The Jester \u2014 who describes himself online as a \u201cHacktivist for good. Obstructing the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers, facilitators, oppressive regimes and other general bad guys.\u201d \u2014 says he\u2019s \u201can ex-soldier with a rather famous unit, country purposely not specified.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Following that ignominious rout, the DNS provider for Wikileaks has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.oneindia.in\/2010\/12\/03\/domain-name-provider-kills-wikileaks-website.html\" target=\"_blank\">terminated the domain name<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The WikiLeaks website has been taken off on Thursday, Dec 2 after its domain host provider EveryDNS.net terminated its account.<br \/>\nThe  whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has told in its Twitter account that,  &#8220;WikiLeaks.org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass  attacks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>h\/t to my underpaid research assistant.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been subject to a denial of service attack, apparently. Those who live by the hack will die by the hack. From here: What goes around comes around: Someone is hacking the hacktivist. And it may be none other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/poetic-justice-wikileaks-org-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,693,2284],"class_list":["post-10830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computeres","tag-dos","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}