Wikileaks is bad for your Internet health. The reason why PayPal and Amazon.com have stopped providing hosting services of any kind to the online classified documents distributor is that they've been the focus of intense Malware attacks. This blogger knows because Zennie62.com was also attacked last week.
A direct link to Wikileaks was installed on Friday; within two hours, a source of traffic from a malware site grew in page view proportion. When the link popped up on the Zennie62.com traffic reports, which are monitored several times each day, my first thought was "That's Wikileaks," and took the link down.
The malware link's traffic contribution went away within 25 minutes.
So it's not that PayPal or Amazon disagree with Wikileaks or have an issue with Julian Assange's dating habits, only that they want to see their sites remain going concerns. They serve millions of people, so why give up commercial activities for one site's content?
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