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"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks,
by kotrin 16y ago
"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all,"
I think that is one of the most important points of this article.
- ZachPruckowski 16y agoFor a law enforcement agency to investigate the Wikileaks would require Wikileaks to turn over their server access logs, including every visitor to the site for the period of time in question. They would be basically finished in terms of getting dissidents to visit the site or hand over information if they're seen as turning over any sort of visitor-identifying info to any sort of law enforcement agency.
- jacquesm 16y agoSomehow I don't think the protection of Wikileaks' servers figured very high on the priority lists.
- ghurlman 16y agoWhere were Wikileaks' servers hosted at the time? The US cops are going to go after the crimes against US businesses on US soil first.
- tptacek 16y agoThose are in fact the only crimes they are likely to have jurisdiction over.
- _delirium 16y agoIf neither the perpetrator nor the servers are in the U.S., theres not likely to be any jurisdiction, but it's not actually necessary for the targeted servers to be in the U.S.; it's sufficient for jurisdiction for the (alleged) perpetrator to be operating from the U.S.
- damoncali 16y agoDoes the FBI even investigate this sort of thing internationally? Does anyone?
- jbooth 16y agoA bunch of people in the UK were arrested today as well. So, yes. Apparently.
- piguy314 16y agoI've been reading a great book on this very subject: http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-System-Error-Bringing-Internet/dp/1586487485 http://www.amazon.com/Fatal-System-Error-Bringing-Internet/d... My general impressions are that nobody likes working with the FBI because they don't share information, but the secret service and postal service fraud unit both work extensively with people overseas. Countries which are members of either the EU or NATO tend to cooperate extensively with cybercrime investigations however those outside of that group do not. Many cybercriminals reside in the eastern bloc (Eastern Europe, Russia, China) and are protected by entrenched political and organized crime interests (usually by both at the same time).
- gloob 16y agoDoes anyone? Countries outside America do have law enforcement agencies for the most part, so yes.
- damoncali 16y agoI meant, does anyone investigate them end-to-end, and not just in their own country? I find it hard to believe that the FBI interacts well with law enforcement in, say, Poland.
- eli 16y agoOh, please. What exactly are you suggesting? Do you think Wikileaks reported any crimes or turned over firewall logs to the FBI?