Tuesday, August 17, 2010

WikiLeaks Servers


WikiLeaks site is hosted by Swedish internet provider PRQ. Sweden was seen as the ideal jurisdiction for WikiLeaks because of the country's stringent laws protecting whistle-blowers. The content is mirrored on several other web servers around the globe, and on peer-to-peer networks- where content is virtually impossible to censor. To protect the identity of its sources, it uses a computer network based on a system called Tor. Tor is a successor to Onion Routing, developed by US naval intelligence as a way for its field operatives to communicate anonymously over the internet. All messages in the network are encrypted, so covert communications cannot be distinguished from ordinary messages. "It's a delicious irony that a system first developed by the US government has now come back to haunt them".-Here

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