Wikileaks to release Trapwire under DDoS attack
For several days, can hardly call the Wikileaks website yet. The reason is a massive DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service). What it means to achieve the attacks, a rate of 10 Gb / s Getting a group calling itself "AntiLeaks" has already taken responsibility for the attack and justified by concern about the recent developments in the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange asylum in Ecuador.
The interesting thing is that the attacks started at the time, wanted to publish a new e-mails from the Wikileaks security company Stratfor Global Intelligence, which refer to a secret surveillance network called "Trapwire" goes. Trapwire should therefore collect image data from surveillance cameras, which are distributed throughout the United States to process the images with the aid of facial and behavioral recognition and tracking down the suspects to give alarm. This year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) (PDF) authorized the armed forces, U.S. citizens and foreigners without a court order to bare (computer) suspicion set time limit.
Creators and operators of Trapwire supposed to be private companies for security technology Abraxas, in which not only the management of ex-CIA operatives. So far, there was little information about the activities of this company. Only the hacker attack by Anonymous at Stratfor - the name stands for "Strategic Forecasting" (Strategic Forecasts) - promoted the e-mails were discovered with the explosive content.
The state-owned English-language Russia Today website informed in detail about the monitoring network and has initiated, despite the less than independent reporting, network-wide discussion. The evidence is certainly grist for the mill of conspiracy theorists and other critical minds.
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