Germans take down ACMA black list leak site

It has been reported that German domain name regulator, DENIC, has taken down the popular website www.wikileaks.de shortly after it published ACMA’s internet filtering trial black list.

Over recent weeks, many reports have emerged of the ACMA internet filtering trial black list having been published on different websites, potentially compromising the Government’s current internet filtering trials. One such website was www.Wikileaks.de.

Wikileaks had been known for its collection of leaked documents, which in most cases lead to great controversy.  According to ARS Technica:

Wikileaks has built up an impressive portfolio of leaked documents like those from secretive religious organizations, congressional reports, specs for military hardware capable of jamming IEDs used by insurgents in Iraq, and even its own donors list. In doing so, it has found few friends in governments and courts, with one judge even ordering its DNS record be erased after documents from Swiss Bank Julius Baer were uploaded to the site.

ARS Technica have also reported that German police raided the residence of the domain name registrant Theodor Reppe of Dresden, Germany who denies any involvement in the posting of leaked documents. It is reported that the raids came shortly after the ACMA blacklist was published. It is unknown at this stage, what involvement if any, ACMA had in closing down this website.

Wikileaks.de now resolves to a generic DENIC page. Despite the action taken by DENIC another mirror site, which is hosted on an alternate TLD, still shows links to different versions of what they claim is the secret ACMA black list.