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They had made it public they were working on this awhile ago, and IMHO its the main reason behind booting off wikileaks for utter bullshit reasons. When Lieber
by cagenut 15y ago
They had made it public they were working on this awhile ago, and IMHO its the main reason behind booting off wikileaks for utter bullshit reasons. When Lieberman's office made that phone call to ask them what their plan was to take the site down, it was with an unstated but obvious implication that not doing so would jeopardize this. The government loves to contract things out, amazon stands to make a lot of money off this by keeping them happy.
- rdl 15y agoI think you're implying Amazon (or any normal business) wouldn't have kicked wikileaks off unless it had explicit federal contracts, which is pretty overly optimistic. For a $20/yr revenue customer, I'm pretty sure most businesses would kick off a customer costing them lots in DoS and other expenses.
- ceejayoz 15y agoI doubt they're a $20/yr customer, somehow. You can't host a site the size and popularity of Wikileaks off a single Micro EC2 instance. Amazon is reasonably hard to DoS, and Wikileaks would've been charged for all the bandwidth incurred from one. Amazon would likely profit off such an attack, really.