[outages] Wikileaks.org down?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:12:58AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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> 
> There was some mumbling, I believe on Slashdot -- which means its 
> confidence level is 0, of course -- that the FBI was involved in this outage.

The issue you're referring to (re: Slashdot) is with regards to VP
candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo! mailbox being compromised, and contents
of that mailbox mailbox being put up on Wikileaks.

Numerous news sources have run article on the break-in.

Wikileaks is either overloaded or has been shut down by the upstream due
to god-knows-what, or by government request.  None of this should come
as a surprise under the circumstances, and I'm also somewhat confused
why a website going down would be outages at isotf.org worthy.

References:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/group-posts-e-m.html
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091608/sta_333013278.shtml
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/palins-email-account-hack_n_127184.html
http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-emails
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_inbox_2008

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