U.S. officials deny technical takedown of WikiLeaks

Option 3: unleash your full firepower against the miscreants who have
dared to invade your soil despite the sign at the gate which reads in
plain English:

  THIS FACILITY IS EXTRATERRITORIAL AND IS NOT PART OF ANY COUNTRY
  NO MAKERS OR ENFORCERS OF ANY FORM OF MAN-MADE LAW ARE ALLOWED
  ON THE PREMISES

  DEADLY FORCE WILL BE USED AGAINST ANY NATIONAL
  AUTHORITIES TRESPASSING PAST THIS BOUNDARY!

Factoid: we outnumber the pigs by 1000 to 1. Even if only 1% of us were
to go out and shoot a pig, we would still outnumber them 10 to 1! We
*CAN* win -- wake up, people!

American People vs. USA -- let's see who is stronger.

MS

Hold the Heathen Hammer High!
With a battle cry!
For the pagan past I live
and one day will die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2bgwcv43o

Is there really any need for this nonsense on this list? Can
  all the rhetoric and politics be kept off and return the list
  to technical issues?

  There are venues much better suited for those discussions.

              John

Yes, but shooting down an RFC1925-compliant porker may require larger caliber
munitions than most of us have handy. And you may want to check your insurance
coverage for liability when it comes back down if you manage to hit it.

BTW, at this time only the server at NL seems to be responding

-J

This nonsense is only non-operational until you suddenly find yourself in a dire need to evade military patrols on a street while you're dragging a bag full of equipment to your "backup" NOC.

Been there, done that.

What are your contingency plans for the event of a government order (illegal, of course, but that'd be your least worry) to shut the network down? Putting your head into sand saying "it can't happen here?" Yes, it can.

In the Soviet Union just emptying datacenters and phone exchanges from any personnel other than security guards - with all technical people making themselves unreachable was sufficient to keep the networks running. The goons, apparently, had no clue which switches to turn.

(There also was a capacity problem caused by the surge in the traffic; but this isn't likely to be a problem in the modern networks, but arranging local caches for highly demanded videos and "alternative" news sites - all mainstream outlets will be playing the equivalent of Swan Lake - may be necessary in order to keep service running).

--vadim

John R. Dennison wrote:

Factoid: we outnumber the pigs by 1000 to 1. Even if only 1% of us
were
to go out and shoot a pig, we would still outnumber them 10 to 1! We
*CAN* win -- wake up, people!

Dude.

As someone who was personally connected to this (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html), and this, http://www.komonews.com/news/local/68320537.html I feel pretty justified in telling you to keep this 'shoot a pig' crap off the list.

Unbelievable.

If you mean shooting people in order to protest a law, that
proposition is obscene,
and attempting to dehumanize flesh and blood, while hiding the nature
of the act through
name-calling does not make the act more civilized, sane, or less
deserving of rebuke.

If "pig" is defined as person(s) conducting network abuse, violating
the AUP of
services they use in manners, such as sending spam, transmitting
illegally obtained documents, or posting large numbers of off-topic political
rants to a technical discussion listserv contrary to its AUP.

And by "shoot" you mean turning off their network service, being used in
the abusive manner contrary to the terms agreed or as required by the law.

Then this is done every day, and I would applaud those such as Amazon
who have done a service to the network community by doing so.