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When conspiracy theories have supporting evidence they cease to be conspiracy theories.

Your Myers Briggs personality type is probably enfj.

The wikileaks tweet was 12 hrs ago. Difficult to sustain a DDOS for long periods.

I'm pretty sure 50% of the people on this forum have ran nmap against wikileaks, just to see. Anyhow: ssh and ftp are open but they terminate the connection after a delay when you try to connect, probably source ip restrictions. Same for ssh. They are hosted on EC2. I am assuming they are using the Amazon AMI, which doesn't take ssh root logins, and the user name will be ec2-user@[host].

The connection is open for the period of the delay. This might a viable attack vector for a DDOS? (If you cannot connect to FTP or ssh, you cannot upload files).

Note: Wikileaks is hosted on Amazon AWS Ireland. You're telling me the US government doesn't have the ability to pull an AWS server in Ireland with a phone call? Oh please. Wikileaks is a poor attempt by the US government to unleash an attack a group that funds its political opponents - this will occur in the near future.

I don't know how old that article is, but it was in an Oracle newsletter that hit my inbox today.