Federal Court removes WikiLeaks.org DNS entry

 By way of Secrecy News, A federal court on Friday issued an injunction disabling the internet domain name of Wikileaks.org,  The injunction stems from a complaint  by  Bank Julias Baer, a Swiss bank, for posting  "confidential bank records". which according to Wikileak's Julian Assagne, expose trust structures allegedly used for tax evasion, asset hiding and money laundering by the ultra rich,"  

Now I'll be one of the first to fight for personal privacy and would deplore any publication of personal data unless said information was publically available.   However, if there is evidence of wrongdoing, then that information should be passed on to the authorities to resolve the matter, unless those (*Cough) authorities are involved in the same dealings, which requires a more drastic action and civil disobedience must occur.

The real interesting point is the attempt of the Federal Court to silence the web site by removing the domain name from the registry, which only begins to show their ignorance of the technology.   OK so the average Joe/Jane  isn't going to be able to type http://wikiLeaks.org and get a web site and the root servers are the "Main" phonebook of the internet, but there are other routes to take.  A simple search on Google and you'll find other posts that mention the injunction, as well as links to the actual IP address of the wikiLeaks.org   The DNS entries are gone and WhoIs may not work, but the information remains.

People like me (aka: fellow conspiracy theorists) who seek out this type of information , will invariably find it by other means.  Wikileaks will resurface, perhaps as a modified name or even through TOR DNS.  The information will not, cannot be silenced.