It was inevitable, given the nature of the site, that the 'whistleblowing service' Wikileaks would find itself the subject of a legal injunction.
From the start, the site had readied itself by setting up servers in Belgium and India as well as the US but, as they said yesterday, they "never expected to be using the alternative servers to deal with censorship attacks from, of all places, the United States".
The site was shut down by California district court judge Jeffrey White after Swiss investment bank Julius Baer issued an injunction; the site had publishing several hundred pages of information that alleged the bank was involved in money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands. The information was posted anonymously on Wikileaks - the site's modus operandi - but is believed to be from a former employee who is the subject of a court case.
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It appears that mirror sites are up and working.
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Wikileaks
http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks
Read more about this case over at Computerworld.
"It seems to me the judge may not have fully understood the way the Internet works and has issued an order that is overly broad and violative for First Amendment rights." said David Ardia, director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard Law School.
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