A writes:
Checking the ownership of domains (or parent domains) that point to the Wikileaks
web server reveals the following cast of characters. Whether these people
are actually involved in Wikileaks, or whether the domains have been
serreptitiously registered in their names and/or sneakily pointed to the
Wikileaks server to implicate them fairly or unfairly, is unknown. Many of
the domains, including ones for which ownership could not be traced, have
their DNS controlled by afraid.org servers. Josh Anderson, who runs afraid.org,
mentions Wikileaks on his Twitter.
Joshua E. Anderson (mooo.com)
http://www.afraid.org/
http://twitter.com/josheanderson
http://www.youtube.com/user/josheanderson
Martin Plesch (iypt.sk)
http://www.quniverse.sk/plesch/
http://gallery.iypt.at/index.php/Participants/Slovakia_Martin_Plesch
Frank S. Werren (cauce.us)
http://www.franksradio.net/
http://www.chautauqualake.net/
Karen K. Anderson (digitalpublications.com)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/writerway
http://biznik.com/members/karen-anderson
http://web.mac.com/karenand/Site/Bio.html
http://writerway.com/
http://iphone4tips.wordpress.com/
Andy Armstrong (inbred.org)
http://www.tagish.com/
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/hexten
http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/CV
Jan Inge Ohren (spacetechnology.net)
http://www.ohren.net/
Pierre Geier (lasttry.org)
http://twitter.com/bloodywing
http://technorati.com/people/BloodyWing
http://bloodywing.deviantart.com/
A2 writes:
Regarding <http://cryptome.org/0002/wikileaks-mail.htm>: I am not sure
what the intention of this post is, but as you may know anyone with control
over a domain's DNS can create DNS-records towards any IP-address. Cryptome
could do the same by creating "wikileaks.cryptome.org" and pointing it to
88.80.13.160. Heck, you could use 198.81.129.125 (cia.gov). Whatever. Just
making sure you know.
Afraid.org is a free "subdomain service" that lets you pick a subdomain on
a top level domain (mooo.com is one, but there's a plethora of others to
choose from), and point it to an IP-address of choice. This is mostly used
by people that don't have their own domain or, say, have an internet connection
with a dynamic IP-address that changes every couple of days. There are scripts
that automatically update their "afraid.org" (or anything else offered by
"afraid.org") subdomain DNS-record, so that they will remain easily reachable
even if their IP-address changes.
Hence, I think it is highly unlikely that the owner of Afraid.org has *anything*
to do with Wikileaks. The fact that he mentions Wikileaks on his Twitter
account most probably means nothing, and is just coincidence (after all,
more and more people mention Wikileaks and its media exposure has increased
much lately).
I am not sure about the other domains -- they seem a tad fishy, but again,
anyone could point to the Wikileaks IP-address for any reason. |