U.S. officials deny technical takedown of WikiLeaks

[jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu>
>
> On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:24:46 EST, Bret Clark said:
> > On 12/04/2010 06:03 PM, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> > > Now Sarah Palin is suggesting Wikileaks are terrorists and should
> > > be taken offline with technical capabilities
> 
> > Enough already...this is not a political list!
> 
> However, given the political climate and general network cluelessness
> in the government sector, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to spend an hour
> or so thinking what you'd do if the humorless guys in dark suits and
> sunglasses showed up with a court order to cut off your customer's access to
> Wikilieaks, even if you aren't their upstream.

And enumerating some of those thoughts is Lauren Weinstein of Privacy Forum:

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000788.html

I don't always agree with everything Lauren says, but it seems to me he
has this one taped pretty well.

Cheers,
-- jra