Wikileaks Servers Sweden
Wikileaks founder julian assange answers media questions during a recent trip to stockholm sweden august 14 2010.
Wikileaks servers sweden. Latest developments have forced wikileaks to move bases pretty regularly. By the cnn wire staff. In order to use the wikileaks public submission system as detailed above you can download the tor browser bundle which is a firefox like browser available for windows mac os x and gnu linux and pre configured to connect using the. A swedish internet company said friday it had been helping whistleblower website wikileaks since 2008 by hosting its servers at a secret basement location in a stockholm suburb.
Though wikileaks data constitute only two of the 8000 servers that exist at the facility they could very well be the company s most controversial client. Government for publishing tens of thousands of military documents related to the afghanistan war. Wikileaks assange will cooperate with sweden but fight us warrant. Sweden s pirate party has agreed to host several new servers of wikileaks an international group denounced by the u s.
The us has said that it was investigating the ongoing cyber attacks against the websites of companies that have cut ties with wikileaks the whistle blowing website. Its website initiated in 2006 in iceland by the organisation sunshine press claimed in 2015 to have released online 10 million documents in its first 10 years. To sweden in 2007 to take advantage of laws protecting whistleblowers and a culture supportive of online mavericks. Tor is an encrypted anonymising network that makes it harder to intercept internet communications or see where communications are coming from or going to.
Wikileaks has likely spread its servers well beyond any single data center including other facilities in sweden and iceland and it s also posted an encrypted file labeled insurance on its site. Julian assange an australian internet activist is generally described as. The servers have now moved to switzerland after been ousted from sweden and france. Swedish pirate party to host wikileaks servers.
Wikileaks moved its servers from the u s.