Wikileaks' new datacenter.

[trekkiedane]

Reception area

Control area

Servers

Meeting room​

James Bond villain command centre? -well, almost:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlATf9xse4[/yt]​

Pretty cool place, won't you say?

 

[Rii]

Hmm, Sweden. Well, I suspect that Assange knows what he's about. The most important thing is that Wikileaks be secure from any legal attack; evidently Sweden fits the bill. I certainly wouldn't leave it in Australia, which has few free speech protections of any kind and is a loyal terrier of the US Government.

EDIT: Forbes

Earlier in August the copyright-flouting Swedish Pirate Party began hosting Wikileaks’ IT operations, and it’s not clear exactly why it’s chosen to move Wikileaks’ servers to the Pionen facility. The threat of law enforcement physically seizing or destroying the organization’s equipment, after all, is much less likely than a legal attempt to gain direct access to Wikileaks’ data. Last year the Swedish government put a crack in the country’s strong free speech protections when it passed a controversial law allowing surveillance of Internet traffic by the FRA, a law enforcement agency.

But Stockholm-based Bahnhof executive Jon Karlung tells me in an interview that the company’s data center is “a kind of metaphor” for Bahnhof’s commitment to resist any sort of intrusion, physical or legal. “We’re proud to have clients like these,” he says. “The Internet should be an open source for freedom of speech, and the role of an ISP is to be a neutral technological tool of access, not an instrument for collecting information from customers.”

Karlung says Bahnhof has not yet complied with Sweden’s new FRA surveillance law. “We have an unbroken chain of fiber-optic cables that cover 2,300 kilometers,” says Karlung. “We’re positive that [government agencies] haven’t installed any equipment yet. That day will come, and when it does we’ll inform all clients that they’re surveilled by the Swedish government.”

 

[RJDiogenes]

They should have moved to the Principality of Sealand.

 

[trekkiedane]

^But would a place there have looked that cool?



And, unlike Bond-villains, the heroes of the net do have the ingenuity and foresight to store their data in multiple different locations

 

[RJDiogenes]

This place definitely is cool. Principality of Sealand is cool, too, though in a different way; more William Gibson than James Bond. I'd be happy owning either.

 

[trekkiedane]

^Ah, a patched together job of bamboo and chipboard held together by epoxy and with fiber-optic cables strutting out here and there...

Sure, that would also be my back-up fortress of freedom.

 

[gturner]

Sealand would be better, because I'm pretty sure pissed off Afghanistanis aren't good with boats.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In the restrooms at that data center, do they have signs over the toilets that say "Deposit your WikiLeak here"?

 

[RJDiogenes]

^Ah, a patched together job of bamboo and chipboard held together by epoxy and with fiber-optic cables strutting out here and there...

Sure, that would also be my back-up fortress of freedom.

You're thinking of Gilligan's Island. But that would be pretty cool, too.

 

[trekkiedane]

^No... I'm definitely thinking cyberpunk...