WikiLeaks Dodges Obstacles To Stay Online.

If the enemies of WikiLeaks are hoping Monday's arrest of Julian Assange will bring an end to his organization's disclosure of government secrets, his attorney Mark Stephens is anxious to set them straight.

"WikiLeaks will continue," Stephens said after Assange was taken into custody in London in response to a Swedish arrest warrant. "WikiLeaks is many thousands of journalists reporting news around the world."
Indeed, the detention of the website's founder may turn out to be just one more chapter in what is shaping up as a WikiLeaks war. The organization's many supporters remain determined to see the release of the secret documents still under WikiLeaks' control, and they're girding for battle.
When their website was shut down by a "distributed denial of service attack" (deliberately overloading the website with data requests), WikiLeaks engineers went to work and found alternative servers for the site, effectively demonstrating that the Internet is hard to control.
But the anti-WikiLeaks forces are also powerful. U.S. allies have endorsed a get-tough policy with the organization, extending all the way to Assange's native Australia, where the WikiLeaks operation was denounced again Tuesday by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.