{"id":42549,"date":"2012-02-01T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T07:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42549"},"modified":"2012-02-01T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T07:28:19","slug":"wikileaks-to-move-servers-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/42549-wikileaks-to-move-servers-offshore.html","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks to move servers offshore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to avoid prosecution in the United States, <a title=\"WikiLeaks\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360826-WikiLeaks\">Wikileaks<\/a> investors are said to be in the process of moving the company servers offshore according to a report by <em>Fox News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News spoke to \u201cmultiple, unnamed sources\u201d who confirmed that <a title=\"Julian Assange\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333540-Julian-Assange\">Julian Assange\u2019s<\/a> financial backers are working through the logistical challenge of moving the servers to international waters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can keep running Wikileaks and nobody can touch them,\u201d a source told <em>Fox News<\/em>. \u201cIf you get a certain distance away from any land then you\u2019re dealing with maritime law. They can\u2019t prosecute him under maritime law. He\u2019s safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wikileaks servers are currently located in Sweden and Iceland, though the company wants to move all servers to the Principality of Sealand.<\/p>\n<p>Sealand is a World War II-era former anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea off the coast of England. According to a 1968 British court ruling, the facility is outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, with Sealand\u2019s owners declaring the facility a sovereign state.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/01\/31\/wikileaks-looks-move-servers-offshore-to-avoid-prosecution\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks investors say they are looking into moving the company\u2019s servers offshore to avoid prosecution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":25463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[615,8543,613],"class_list":["post-42549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-julian-assange","tag-principality-of-sealand","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}