Sunday 5 December 2010

Finding Wikileaks

American pressure to dissuade companies from supporting the Wikileaks website has resulted in it being impossible to reach WikiLeaks by typing wikileaks.org into a web browser. I don't know the technical reason behind it but if you go looking for it that way, you are greeted by the 'Page Load Error' screen and a message stating that 'wikileaks.org could not be found.'
Very unsporting but my IT guy, as ever helpful as always, tells me typing in http://88.80.13.160/ takes you to the exact same page the USA Government are trying to hide.
Here's the science bit.
At present, that location redirects users to a Wikleaks page at http://213.251.145.96/, which is run by a French company, but if pressure from the French government pushes Wikileaks off that host, it will always have the Swedish 88/80/13.160 location. Nope, i don't get it either but the simple explanation is bookmark that first number, ignore the number at the top that it changes to as that will change as Wikileaks gets shoved around, and stick two fingers up to Hillary Clinton and her crowd.
You can also find the Wikileaks Twitter page at http://twitter.com/wikileaks
Truth is Hillary, if you hadn't been so secretive and two faced in the first place, you wouldn't have to be running around trying to smooth things over and closing down websites that expose your duplicity now.

5 comments:

Nog said...

"88/80/13.160" meaning 88.80.13.160?

And the whole IP address makes perfect sense. Every web site address is actually a less technical way of getting to some IP address. And I'm a bit surprised that an IT guy would go thru the trouble to track down the site's IP address.


-Nog

Lucy said...

This is the part where i shrug Nog. I said to IT guy 'How can anyone get wikileaks if it isn't on google now' and he said 'type this in' and 300 or so words later here we are with the only bit i understand being 'type this in'. I really should find out how these things work.

The Penny Saver Counselor said...

This wikileaks situation can possibly put a lot of people in harms way. Why would you contribute to that?

Lucy said...

The same argument was made over the previous Afghan and Iraq leaks but the one in most harms way seems to be the wikileaks owner Penny Saver.

ThePennySaverCounselor said...

So his life is more important than the thousands of soliders who were sent to this war? One has to wonder why would this man do this in the first place. Seems like an ego trip; and now he is being prosecuted for an alleged rape. That must be a conspiracy right?