Interesting surge in the number of hits for wikileaks cover names

I had a huge (for this blog and for the previous amount of interest) surge of traffic here today from search engines for the terms wikileaks cover names and “wikileaks cover names” with over 60 combined hits on those two so far today. I’ll have to poke around the internet and see whether I can determine what might have caused the sudden interest, I guess. Anyway, nice to see it.

ETA: It may be that this now ranks 2nd in the Google results for wikileaks cover names (I don’t know, but I doubt it did before today). Darn, I was hoping there was a big news story on it and that everyone else was enjoying a similar surge. Oh well.

An archive of the cover names as they existed a few months ago can be found here

Of course, the fact that wikileaks doesn’t seem to be responding at the moment may have something to do with it as well… in fact none of the cover names I’ve tried so (quite a few) far respond either. Coincidence or DOS? Who knows.

Wikileaks - shut down (but not effectively)

Perhaps you’ve heard of the recent court order in California which attempted to shut down Wikileaks at the request of a Swiss bank. Not particularly effective, though no doubt it will give the mirror sites a bit of a traffic boost. For anyone who runs across information on wikileaks (or elsewhere) which they feel is important, I recommend webcitation.org, screenshotting, copying the source code, downloading and spreading it all around. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, in orther words.

Oh, yeah. Wikileaks information on the Swiss Bank/Cayman issue can be found here, the “shut down site” can be found hosted here. A current archive of wikipedia’s entry on wikileaks is here, which mentions searching “wikileaks cover names” to get around censorship issues under certain conditions. A list of such cover names is archived here.

So, if anyone wanted to anonymously leak onto the internet an FBI document which is claimed by the FBI not to exist such as, for instance, 203A-WF-210023 - a document which Sibel Edmonds and the UK Times say has existed in the past, there’s probably still a way, despite the “wikileaks shutdown”.