Democratic countries are allegedly trying to shut down the whistleblower site WikiLeaks. But first, they have a legal tangle to solve.
“Julian Assange is an Australian citizen. And he's based his servers in Sweden. Sweden supports freedom of speech and is not beholden to American law,” said www.thebiggeek.com Technology Writer Gagandeep Singh Sapra.
Non-state hackers could, illegally, digitally attack the servers that contain the site's content. Or find weaknesses in the site's programming code. But when CNN-IBN tried to just find where the WikiLeaks servers are located, we got addresses from the US to Paris to Sweden.
“WikiLeaks is hosted on thousands of servers worldwide. If you disable one, another takes up the load. They are all ex-hackers themselves, so their code is very, very strong. Then again, they use mirroring sites, so if one website is shut down, it automatically points to another, still functioning location,” said Gagandeep.
China throttles all sensitive websites, at the physical node where internet cables enter their country. But proxy servers based in other countries can fool those censors. Sites like Gopher turn hot pages into innocent emails, letting even the Chinese read the WikiLeaks files.
But instead of shutting down WikiLeaks, shouldn't we try to save it? The Radia tapes, the Commonwealth Games, the Adarsh housing scam, think of the dirt an Indian version of WikiLeaks could unveil and the good that would do for all of us.
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