I see there's some follow up on http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/16/wikileaks_mirror_malware_warning_row... including a response from wikileaks.info We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without
even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it. We do not know who else is hosted with Heihachi Ltd and it is none of our business. They provide reliable hosting to us. That's it.
While we are in favour of 'Blacklists', be it for mail servers or websites, they have to be compiled with care. Just listing whole IP blocks as 'bad' may be quick and easy for the blacklist editors, but will harm hosters and web site users.
Wikileaks has been pulled from big hosters like Amazon. That's why we are using a 'bulletproof' hoster that does not just kick a site when it gets a letter from government or a big company. Our hoster is giving home to many political sites like castor-schottern.org and should not be blocked just because they might have hosted some malware sites.
Fortunately, more responsible blacklists, like stopbadware.org (which protects the Firefox browser, for example), don't list us. We do hope that Spamhaus hasn't issued this statement due to political pressure.
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