Wikileaks sets up defense against more attacks

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Wikileaks sets up defense against more attacks
By Declan McCullagh
CNET News
December 8, 2010

Wikileaks has quietly bolstered its electronic defenses as its operations have come under increasing financial and political pressure.

In the last few days, the portion of Wikileaks's infrastructure that relied on a company in Reno, Nevada has been shifted outside the US to a provider in Toronto. Instead of employing only one company to direct traffic to Wikileaks.ch — currently the organization's primary website — 14 providers are now being used to ensure redundancy in case of legal or extralegal attack.

As part of its technological counter-measures undertaken since Friday, Wikileaks has turned to servers operated by the Swedish Pirate Party, which previously signaled support for the document-sharing effort in August. The number of mirror sites continues to grow at the pace of one every few minutes, topping 1,000 on Tuesday.

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