Tech | February 02, 2012 | 11 comments

WikiLeaks Appeals To Maritime Law?

source: http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=18419

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By Elizabeth Leafloor | RedIceCreations. com

In a bid to keep its servers out of the hands of global jurisdictions and evade prosecution, WikiLeaks has been allegedly reported as looking into ways to relocate the servers to offshore data centres.

Wikileaks’ servers have been based in many different countries such as France, Iceland and Sweden, and while the authorities have been so far unable to shut them down permanently, obviously they’re a prime target in the seemingly global fight against WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange.

In an ’exclusive’ by Fox News , unnamed sources "within the hacker community" suggest:

"...Assange’s financial backers have been working behind the scenes on the logistics of moving the servers to international waters.

"Then they can keep running WikiLeaks and nobody can touch them,” one source told FoxNews .com. “If you get a certain distance away from any land, then you’re dealing with maritime law ... They can’t prosecute him under maritime law. He’s safe. He’s not an idiot, he’s actually very smart."

FoxNews suggests a likely location may be the Principality of Sealand.

"... a rusty, World War II-era, former anti-aircraft platform off the coast of England in the North Sea. Based on a 1968 British court ruling that the facility is outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, Sealand’s owner has declared the facility a sovereign state, or “micro-nation.”

And while this move has been unconfirmed, it has been widely suspected that housing the servers in international waters will legally keep global authority’s hands off the sensitive information, and keep it online....

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11 comments // WikiLeaks Appeals To Maritime Law?

  • Naumadd
    • +1
      Naumadd  

    • Correction - no one can "legally touch them". Maybe that's true, and maybe not.

      I think it's clear there are many in the world willing to do very illegal things to get what they want. It's not the law-abiders you have to fear -

      it's the animals masquerading as human beings.

    • 4 months ago
  • Dagum
    • 0
      Dagum  
    • Naumadd:

      He could also offer off shore banking services on the island/country.

      Hold all the countries of the world hostage with their money if they threaten you and mine the shit out of the waters to protect from pirates.

    • 4 months ago
  • Naumadd
    • 0
      Naumadd  

    • It sounds smart but, strategically, a bad move to - as my mother would likely say - "Put all your eggs in one basket." Better to keep your servers in many locations and build in redundancy so that no takedown of any one or even any group of servers is a complete takedown of your mission. Perhaps they don't have the resources to do such a thing.

      I believe those in the computing community who are sympathetic to their cause do.

      Methinks this idea doesn't come from those genuine gurus of shadow networking. I can't imagine they'd suggest such a thing.

    • 4 months ago
  • Dagum
  • ampersand
    • +3
      ampersand  

    • Although I can applaud the idea (Julian, my cash donation is being hand carried to avoid the mail), that fact that this story is coming from Fox "news" out of "unnamed sources" makes it suspect.
      Let's wait for some confirmation before we break out the champagne.

    • 4 months ago
  • MSII
  • fiberbundle
    • +3
      fiberbundle  

    • Combine it with a casino and make it self financing.

      "Have a whale of a time on the the Good Ship Wiki-leaks.

      Sign up now for the Spring Whistleblowers Cruise and share intimate secrets with those in the know..

    • 4 months ago
  • The_Wanderer_Kansas
  • fiberbundle
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