[pp.int.general] Wikileaks under DDoS attack

[Andrew Norton]

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On 11/28/2010 4:37 PM, lilo wrote:
> http://wlcentral.org/
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> whats about legal or not legal?

I can't answer for other countries, and their laws, but in the US, it is.

18 U.S.C. § 793 : US Code - Section 793: Gathering, transmitting or
losing defense information. http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/37/793
part e. would probably be applied, both to wikileaks, and potentially
the New York Times (although they no doubt will argue 1st Amendment
protections, and the fact that at the time they published (thus
violating section e) it was already available to those same people
through other channels, and thus they were only reporting on information
publicly available)

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Andrew Norton
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