http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11917891

They don't like it up em, do they?

This is all so obvious it's laughable.

I think this just shows who really runs the internet. If it upsets the Americans, it goes.

F*ck you Paypal!!

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PayPal attacked after cutting off Wikileaks

PayPal has been the latest target of a DDOS attack after cutting off Wikileaks.

Since the whistle-blowing website started to release its series of leaked diplomatic cables, that site has been hit by distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and was forced to move to a new domain after being dropped by Every DNS as well as Amazon.

The attacks are going both ways, however, as PayPal's blog was taken offline after the online payment system shut down Wikileaks' account, blocking supporters from making donations.
The PayPal blog was down for more than eight hours, but has now returned, according to a report from security researcher Sean-Paul Correll at Panda Labs.

The attack appears to be from Anonymous, the hackers behind the Operation Payback attacks on anti file-sharing sites.

The Anonymous twitter feed claimed credit for the attack, while leaders of the group said it felt obliged to defend Wikileaks, according to a statement sent to Correll.

“While we don’t have much of an affiliation with Wikileaks, we fight for the same: we want transparency (in our case in copyright) and we counter censorship," the statement said. "The attempts to silence Wikileaks are long strides closer to a world where we can not say what we think and not express how we feel."

"Except for the usual DDoSing, word will be spread that whoever tries to silence or discourage Wikileaks, favors world domination rather than freedom and democracy,” the hacking group added.

PayPal said it shut down Wikileaks' account because it violated its acceptable use policy, which says the "payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity".


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I wonder how much money was coming in for Wikileaks with all this attention

The issues exposed by wikileaks recently were not that enlightening. This looks like damaging these companies reputation outside the US. They might need to think again.

Anonymous Wikileaks supporters mull change in tactics

'Coldblood', a member of the group Anonymous, tells Jane Wakefield why he views its attacks on Visa and Mastercard as defence of Wikileaks.

Web attacks carried out in support of Wikileaks are being wound down as activists consider changing tactics.

Attacks against Amazon were called off late on 9 December and re-directed towards net payments firm Paypal.

Analysis suggests the earlier attacks were made more effective by the involvement of hi-tech criminals.

At the same time one wing of the activist group suggested ditching the attacks and doing more to publicise what is in the leaked cables.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11968605

This is a much better policy. The more that the public learn of the contents the more that the public will realise that they are not the traitorous acts that they are being portrayed as.