WikiLeaks now storing files in 'James Bond' bunker

[Turborama]

Source: CNN

Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday. But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found a new home for its files: A Cold War bunker, inside a Swedish mountain, that's been described as fit for a "James Bond" movie.

A company called Bahnhof is hosting the WikiLeaks site from a literal cave inside White Mountain, near Stockholm, Sweden, according to news reports from Forbes, The Associated Press, and the Norwegian news website VG Nett.

The MIT Technology Review, where we spotted this story, describes the situation this way:

"If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he's succeeded: the ongoing distributed denial of service attack against Wikileaks has forced his minions to move the site to a fortified data center encased in a cold war-era, nuke-proof bunker encased in bedrock. Really."

Forbes has further details about the storage site:

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/12/02/wikileaks.cave.server/

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WikiLeaks reportedly is storing some of its data in this Swedish bunker, as shown in a YouTube
video by Data Center Pulse

The video from Data Center Pulse's YouTube channel...

White Mountain, Fit For A James Bond Villain!
This is the first edition of Data Center Pulse, On The Road. In this episode, Jon Karlung, CEO of Bahnhof, a local teclo gives Dean Nelson a tour of his Pionen, White Mountain datacenter in downtown Stockholm, Sweden. It is located in a bunker 30 meters under solid bedrock. It was a cold war bunker that was converted into this datacenter and is said to be able to withstand a Hydrogen bomb blast. It is very unique and reminds me of a James Bond movie! And that is what Jon was going for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4

[Duer 157099]

1. Awesome

I hope there are many such centers that house the net's backbone.

[htuttle]

2. "The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

-- John Gilmore, Rule #2, Rules of the Internet

[notadmblnd]

3. There are many secure storage sites. I know they exist n the US too

Iron Mountain is a huge secure data storage corporation. The government and other corporations have used sites like this for years to meet some of their Disaster Recovery needs.

[Xithras]

27. Iron Mountain is awesome. I wish we had something like that on the left coast.

The truly amazing thing is that it's so energy efficient. Rack heat is dissipated directly into the limestone walls. HVAC is regulated by pumping the air through the water from an underground lake. The power requirements are tiny compared to a normal surface level datacenter.

There are also a number of disaster datacenters across the country operating in old missile silos. None are as deep, or as efficient, as Iron Mountain.

[notadmblnd]

28. On 911, one of our client's DRA site was across the river in Hoboken NJ

But Iron Mountain has branches. The company I worked for off-sited their backed up data with them.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. 'trying to turn himself into a Bond villain' - uh, yeah, that's it, his entire goal is just that

CNN, please stop sucking on the govt teat and repeating this BS - wake up to reality

[redirish28]

5. Makes me wonder if what we have already is just the tip of the iceberg and the BIG STUFF

will really blow holes into the fabric of what we believe to be reality.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. wonder what they might have on Lieberman in particular

he seems highly motivated right now

[redirish28]

9. TRUE. Who knew he had such power. I always thought he was a looney

[Hardrada]

17. I'm sure they have a fucking encyclopedia on that POS!

[Tempest]

26. It wouldn't surprise me to find Lieberman spies for Israel

I'm betting Lieberman has shared many a classified, top-secret document with Israel.

[oberliner]

30. Why wouldn't that surprise you?

Why Lieberman of all people?

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[cascadiance]

6. Better to refer to it as a rebel base that's more resistant to Empire Death Star attacks...

That's a better characterization of the sides involved.

[pleah]

8. K&R Keep it leaking.

[daleo]

10. I guess NORAD is a James Bond villain too

Since their headquarters are also built into a mountain.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

11. No Mr. Bond, I expect you to read!

:P

[Hassin Bin Sober]

14. Nicely played!

:) :thumbsup:

[area51]

23. lol, DUzy. n/t

[blackspade]

12. Gotta love the M$M,

The James Bond villain angle sure is classy.... :sarcasm:

[Turborama]

13. Jon Karlung, the CEO of Bahnhof, says 3:42 into the video that James Bond...

...and science fiction movies were the inspiration.

This one was waaay too easy for any reporter to jump on.

From the conclusion of the article in the OP...

One video, from a group called Data Center Pulse, describes the center as one of the coolest on earth and "fit for a James Bond villain." A man who describes himself as Bahnhof's CEO in the video says that the inspiration for the center actually was "science fiction and James Bond movies."

[tblue37]

15. But the *villains* in this story are the powerful government actors

that are trying to prevent citizens from know how they operate and what laws they are breaking!

Talk about using biased language to smear Julian Assange.

[glinda]

16. So Sweden has accused him of rape but protects the Data?

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

[ProudDad]

19. Politically connected Swede(s) have been coerced

by the Empire to overcharge Assange for a broken condom...

And the new repository is in Norway...

:shrug:

[avaistheone1]

18. I hope this has a good ending.

Maybe someday we will see Julian Assange the Movie, about how he bravely survived this hell, while revealing to world important truths about the true dealings of their governments.

[ProudDad]

20. But I suspect Sean Penn is too old to play Assange though (n/t)

[NuclearDem]

21. Well, now the Empire knows it's in White Mountain

In fact, I have photographic evidence that they're looking for Wikileaks...




:P

[Turborama]

22. CNN have updated the article with a video at the top of the story (posting it here, as well)

CNN report: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/12/02/pkg.todd.wikileaks.caves.cnn

[joshcryer]

24. Centralized servers will never succeed.

[msanthrope]

25. So when does the "Hitler Finds Out that Assange's Bunker is Better Than His."

video hit Youtube????

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/762a5f8cc6/hitler-finds-out-sarah-palin-resigns

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2ff7bb45ae/hitler-finds-out-that-michael-jaskson-is-dead

[marasinghe]

29. ah! MIT technology -- always available at a war somewhere on the planet ....

courtesy of the DoD's discretionary budget.

not dumping on your post; but the PTB seem to be pressing buttons @ desperate random now.
".... Fit For A James Bond Villain! ...."

:rofl: