Is TrapWire surveillance really spying on Americans?
WikiLeaks is under attack again, and many Internet users speculate it may be related to information the site has recently published about a wide-spanning American surveillance system called TrapWire.
"What is TrapWire and why is WikiLeaks under a sophisticated DDOS attack after posting docs about TrapWire?" tweeted journalist, professor and media critic Dan Gillmor Friday.
"What does it mean when WikiLeaks publishes a trove of documents hacked by Anonymous from the strategic intelligence firm Stratfor — a trove that apparently details a massive electronic spying system run by the U.S. government — and is then hit by a massive and sustained distributed denial of service attack that prevents journalists and people at large from examining the documents in question?" wondered blogger J.D Tuccille on the libertarian Reason.com website. "I can't be the only person that finds that just a tad ... suggestive."
