I've been refraining from writing about the wikileaks affairs so far, mainly because I tend to believe that the famous saying ascribed to former chinese prime minister, Zou Enlai , regarding the french revolution, is very relevant to this immensely complex matter.
It is too soon to say what is the impact of the matter, and its analysis - the analysis of all things related - require time. After all, it isn't as if there aren't other interesting things to think or write about, and the real shortage is in time, not ideas or interesting bits to mention.
But one story of the wikileaks incidents has caught my eye, and is worth mentioning in my mind - Amazon's clear ability to stand unharmed, despite cyber attacks by wikileaks-angry-supporters. Amazon's choice to join others and cease supporting hosting services to wikileaks, a decision which is in itself deserving a post or several, has brought the attention of cyber attackers, who apparently did not analyze the size of their challenge.
Amazon, planned and built for the huge workloads of the shopping seasons, is not the usual cyber-victim. As the CNN story telling of Amazon's durability, describes so nicely: "The holiday shopping season essentially is a month-long DDoS attack on Amazon's servers". And thus, the avengers had to seek other targets, of a smaller capacity, and leave the giant array of Amazon's free to serve its buyers.
But what interested me here wasn't just the technical reasoning of huge-is-a-winner (which could have been phrased otherwise as hackers are just bullies - they harass only the little ones), but the interesting image whose initial bits get drawn out of this - it might just be that wikileaks and its like may jeopardize nations, but remain quite unobtrusive and even powerless against corporations . And this isn't happy news.
It is too soon to say what is the impact of the matter, and its analysis - the analysis of all things related - require time. After all, it isn't as if there aren't other interesting things to think or write about, and the real shortage is in time, not ideas or interesting bits to mention.
But one story of the wikileaks incidents has caught my eye, and is worth mentioning in my mind - Amazon's clear ability to stand unharmed, despite cyber attacks by wikileaks-angry-supporters. Amazon's choice to join others and cease supporting hosting services to wikileaks, a decision which is in itself deserving a post or several, has brought the attention of cyber attackers, who apparently did not analyze the size of their challenge.
Amazon, planned and built for the huge workloads of the shopping seasons, is not the usual cyber-victim. As the CNN story telling of Amazon's durability, describes so nicely: "The holiday shopping season essentially is a month-long DDoS attack on Amazon's servers". And thus, the avengers had to seek other targets, of a smaller capacity, and leave the giant array of Amazon's free to serve its buyers.
But what interested me here wasn't just the technical reasoning of huge-is-a-winner (which could have been phrased otherwise as hackers are just bullies - they harass only the little ones), but the interesting image whose initial bits get drawn out of this - it might just be that wikileaks and its like may jeopardize nations, but remain quite unobtrusive and even powerless against corporations . And this isn't happy news.
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