WikiLeaks has asked the web community to open mirror sites so it cannot be downed or censored and said Monday that 355 new sites are already up.
"Wikileaks is currently under heavy attack," the group said on its website. "In order to make it impossible to ever fully remove Wikileaks from the Internet, we need your help."
The site is asking people with Unix-based servers and excess hosting resources to answer its call. WikiLeaks' entire website "should not take more than a couple of GB at the moment," it said.
Mirror sites are additional websites that have all of the same information as the original site and are updated automatically each time the original site adds new content. WikiLeaks hopes the new sites can ensure the survival of the mass of leaked documents, videos and other data it has collected and published.
Last Friday, the controversial website could not be accessed through its WikiLeaks.org domain name after EveryDNS.net terminated its domain name service over repeated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against WikiLeaks. The U.S.-based service provider said it did provide prior notice. The move came just days after Amazon Web Services stopped hosting WikiLeaks on its servers for breaking user rules saying that websites must use their own content and not carry data that might injure others. The U.S. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman, had also asked Amazon to stop hosting the controversial website.
WikiLeaks has come under fire for publishing classified U.S. documents, including videos and documents from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as sensitive cables sent between U.S. embassies and the U.S. State Department. WikiLeaks continues to post the cables.
WikiLeaks has faced a number of DDOS attacks, designed to knock out access to the website. WikiLeaks.org appears to still be offline. New links to WikiLeaks from the company's Twitter feed are going to WikiLeaks.ch.
Netcraft, which tracks web attacks, shows in a series of graphs that WikiLeaks.org has been down since last Friday.
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AbuseOfPower said: Revelations of abuse of power be it political or military are what conventional media used to and still should publicise Current media are more obsessed with X Factor and Strictly Come than any of the important news so little wonder that WiliLeaks has sprung upMilitary secrets - just about covers everything with current politicianstroops on front line duty - they should be as interested as anyone else about how theyve ended up there If theyre in increased danger due to the revelations of the excesses carried out by some of their peers then blame them and the politicians who carried outallowed the numerous attrocities not WikiLeaks for revealing them
Linda said: Perhaps he should ask some of the troops on front line duty in Iraq to help him Im sure they would LOVE to accomodate him
Michael W said: Its no surprise to see politicians and Kings and Clerics wriggling like worms on a hook in embarrassmentTransparency in politics is a contradiction in terms so Im happy to see what politicians and rulers are really saying behind closed door spurporting to represent us allIm not happy with Military secrets being publicised thoughpoliticians are where the buck stopsnot the military commanders doing the politicians bidding