Trend Micro advises users to avoid wikileaks.info

Smells like bullshit.

Originally posted by hikaricor:

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Smells like bullshit.

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Google's 'Heihachi ltd'...

This makes perfect sense and is in no way suspicious. The US government has pressured hosting providers and domain name controllers to withdraw their services from Wikileaks, given also the ongoing DDOS onslaught that Wikileaks is weathering it makes perfect sense for them to find a provider that can resist both political and technical attacks on them.

Something tells me Trend is getting DDOS'd.

For fairness and balance, the article should also present the statements of the other side:

Wikileaks.info Press Release

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Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info

Published 15-Dec-2010, 8:00 AM GMT

On Tuesday, 14-Dec-2010 Spamhaus has issued a statement wherein it labels wikileaks.info as "unsafe", as they consider our hosting company as a malware facilitator:

http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665

We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it. We do not know who else is hosted with Heihachi Ltd and it is none of our business. They provide reliable hosting to us. That's it.

While we are in favour of "Blacklists", be it for mail servers or web sites, they have to be compiled with care. Just listing whole IP blocks as "bad" may be quick and easy for the blacklist editors, but will harm hosters and web site users.

Wikileaks has been pulled from big hosters like Amazon. That's why we are using a "bulletproof" hoster that does not just kick a site when it gets a letter from government or a big company. Our hoster is giving home to many political sites like castor-schottern.org and should not be blocked just because they might have hosted some malware sites.

Fortunately, more responsible blacklists, like stopbadware.org (which protects the Firefox browser, for example), don't list us. We do hope that Spamhaus hasn't issued this statement due to political pressure.

Wikileaks.info will always be safe and clean. Promised:

Google Safe Browsing Check for wikileaks.info

Update (15-Dec-2010 17:00 PM GMT): Spamhaus has updated their statement to say that they don't blacklist us.

The wikileaks.info Team

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Definition: Corporatism -Political system in which power is exercised through large organizations (businesses, trade unions, etc) working in concert with each other, under the direction of the state


Definition: Fascism- A radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy.

Why can't I find this host on Wikipedia? They seem pretty well known to not have a Wikipedia page...

Originally posted by wikileaksinfo:

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For fairness and balance, the article should also present the statements of the other side:

Wikileaks.info Press Release

Quote:

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Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info

Published 15-Dec-2010, 8:00 AM GMT

On Tuesday, 14-Dec-2010 Spamhaus has issued a statement wherein it labels wikileaks.info as "unsafe", as they consider our hosting company as a malware facilitator:

http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665

We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it. We do not know who else is hosted with Heihachi Ltd and it is none of our business. They provide reliable hosting to us. That's it.

While we are in favour of "Blacklists", be it for mail servers or web sites, they have to be compiled with care. Just listing whole IP blocks as "bad" may be quick and easy for the blacklist editors, but will harm hosters and web site users.

Wikileaks has been pulled from big hosters like Amazon. That's why we are using a "bulletproof" hoster that does not just kick a site when it gets a letter from government or a big company. Our hoster is giving home to many political sites like castor-schottern.org and should not be blocked just because they might have hosted some malware sites.

Fortunately, more responsible blacklists, like stopbadware.org (which protects the Firefox browser, for example), don't list us. We do hope that Spamhaus hasn't issued this statement due to political pressure.

Wikileaks.info will always be safe and clean. Promised:

Google Safe Browsing Check for wikileaks.info

Update (15-Dec-2010 17:00 PM GMT): Spamhaus has updated their statement to say that they don't blacklist us.

The wikileaks.info Team

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Thanks for taking note.

wikileaks.info team

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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Something tells me Trend is getting DDOS'd.

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wikileaks has been in the news a lot, i guess the government is trying to crack down on it from all them documents released. I say Go for Gold wikileaks, sharing is caring :P

Originally posted by Dela:

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The reason Trend blocks the entire ISP is because its a huge source for "real" criminal organizations online, unfortunately for Wikileaks it doesn't seem to have any other choice for hosting anymore. I guess there could be some kind of exclusion list for certain sites hosted by a particular ISP though.

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