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US judge arranges summary execution of Wikileaks.org
Many-headed whistleblower site still standingPublished Tuesday 19th February 2008 02:31 GMT

The US arm of Wikileaks, a website that makes it easy for whistleblowers to leak documents, has been cut off after hosting evidence that claimed a bank located in the Cayman Islands engaged in money laundering and tax evasion.
Dynadot, the US-based company that hosted Wikileaks' main site, not only severed wikileaks.org from the net; it also agreed to lock the domain name so it can't be transferred to another provider. A federal judge in San Francisco signed off on the agreement on Friday (15 Feb).
The agreement came in a lawsuit brought by bank Julius Baer, the parent company of the accused Cayman bank. After trying unsuccessfully to get Wikileaks to remove the documents, Swiss-based Julius Baer went after Dynadot, which according to this copy of the court order, agreed to roll over in exchange for the suit against it being dismissed. Dynadot also agreed to turn over records related to Wikileaks, including "IP addresses and associated data used by any person, other than Dynadot, who accessed the account for the domain name".
Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to post documents anonymously - at least when its webhost isn't coerced into turning over IP addresses and other information most customers would consider confidential.
According to this piece from Wired News, Wikileaks was unable to argue its position on the matter at a Friday court hearing because it only learned of the hearing a few hours before it started. Astonishingly, US District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California signed off on the stipulation, anyway.
The episode is another reminder that an organization's security is only as good as the security of the people who provide its internet connection. Wikileaks claims that it is an "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis". But this is true only if its webhosts can be trusted not to pull the plug on its customers or divulge sensitive client information.
In this case Julius Baer quickly realized it couldn't silence Wikileaks, so it went after a weaker link in the chain, which evidently was much less willing to put up a fight.
Wikileaks was founded in 2006 by people from a host of countries, including the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa. It has generated headlines by hosting documents exposing several high-profile scandals, including those related to the collapse of the UK's Northern Rock bank and to prisons in Iraq and and Guantanamo Bay. The site says it has posted more than 1.2 million documents.

Steve Bellovin writes:

According to http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/us/20wiki.html a Cayman
Islands bank, Julius Baer Bank and Trust, didn't was unhappy that

        a disgruntled ex-employee who has engaged in a harassment and
        terror campaign? provided stolen documents to Wikileaks in
        violation of a confidentiality agreement and banking laws.

Since wikileaks apparently feared some sort of court order, the site is
hosted in Sweden on a site that

        has gone out of its way to host sites that other companies
        wouldn?t touch. It is perhaps the world?s least lawyer-friendly
        hosting company and thus a perfect home for Wikileaks, which
        says it is ?developing an uncensorable system for untraceable
        mass document leaking and public analysis.?

(from
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/wikileaks-site-has-a-friend-in-sweden/)
Accordingly, Julius Baer Bank got a court order against the site's DNS
registrar, ordering them to delete wikileaks.org from the DNS.

It's amazing that a federal judge would do something quite this
blatant.  It takes the whole web site off the air, including
content that is quite clearly protected by the First Amendment.  Even
trying to censor particular articles is dubious, based on precedent;
blocking the entire site clearly violates precedent; see, for example,
http://www.news.com/Court-strikes-down-Pennsylvania-porn-law/2100-1028_3-5361999.html

Not surprisingly, the NY Times article quoted the web site as noting the
similarity of this case to the Pentagon Papers case.  The Times also
noted how ineffectual the censorship attempt actually was -- not only
are there alternate names wikileaks.be, wikileaks.de, and wikileaks.cx
-- but the site is still reachable via 88.80.13.160.