How Has WikiLeaks Managed to Keep Its Web Site Up and Running?: Scientific American

How Has WikiLeaks Managed to Keep Its Web Site Up and Running?: Scientific American: "The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London Tuesday may have brought an end to the standoff between the 39-year-old Australian and European law enforcement, but the organization he leads has vowed to continue releasing sensitive documents. Just how WikiLeaks has been able to continue posting classified material from U.S. and other nations' diplomats and officials—despite numerous cyber attacks against the Web site and the defection of key service providers—is a bit of Internet trickery commonly deployed by legitimate and criminal online organizations alike to protect themselves from traffic spikes and from being shut down. Such is the persistence of information in the Internet Age."