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An Inside Look at the Nuclear Bunker Housing Wikileaks’ Servers
- Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:46am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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While Wikileaks has brought many things out in the open, its servers remain underground — very deep underground according fotograf.nu and reported by the the site BoingBoing.
According to BoingBoing, the severs are housed in “a kind of batcave decorated with rough stone walls and gro-light foliage,“ and the site ”is a former nuclear bunker, situated under 30 meters of rocky mountain.”
As one BoingBong commenter notes regarding the servers being housed in a nuclear bunker, “It seems somehow ironic [since] the likelihood of war against Iran has been increased because of Wikileak’s release of the US diplomatic cables.”
Well said. The panoramic, interactive pictures can be viewed here.
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Comments (154)
MajSmitty
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 10:02amHow is it that government officials can read 250,000 leaked documents in the last 24 hours, but could not read a 1,000 page health care bill in 8 months?
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 10:36amLMAO!!! Too funny!
Silversmith
Report Post »2brwnis
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:54pmHoorah! Hilarious!
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:58amLooks computer generated. In movies that use genuine people in real situations along with special effects, you can‘t tell the difference between cg and what’s real, such as in Pirates of the Carribean and Davy Jones’ crew where the special effects were added after the movie was in the can, so to speak.
These pics look like video game graphics to me.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:11pmELGAD, MRCLEAN. Stop. There isn’t anything fake about the photo. It’s called High Dynamic Range Imaging. Google it. Learn something new. Well, google it anyway.
Report Post »Iowa_man
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:00pmI have to agree with Mrclean. The lights, shadows and contrasts give this away as computer enhanced at the very least. I’d say somebody is pulling quite a fast one. All that is missing is the bond music…
Report Post »dirtypolitics
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:51amI wonder who is emboldening Wikilieaks’ Assange?
Maybe somebody who is very powerful and somebody who is very rich.
I wonder who is very interested in the destruction of America?
Maybe somebody who is very powerful and somebody who is very rich.
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:51amSeems odd to me that obama is trying to bring back the fairness doctrine so that he can shut down any web sites that don’t agree with his agenda, yet when this nut at wikileak’s gives out secret, sensitive, information he will not shut him down. I wonder how much obama has to do with this and I wonder what the left hand is doing?
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 11:03amI suppose it would seem odd if you think that the POTUS has the power to execute orders to foreign governments, companies and individual citizens. Other than that, you’re right, why the hell can’t President Obama shutdown a server in another country, owned by a foreign company, paid for by foreign citizens. America should be able to force it’s will on anyone at anytime!
Report Post »koibaby
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:49amThe Morlocks are alive and well.
Report Post »ELGAD
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:48amConstructive criticism. Here are a few areas for improvement.
Report Post »Things not only have reflections they also cast shadows in a direction away from light sources – multiple light sources mean multiple shadows – also flat flush mount conduit penetrations lose credibility when pasted over bumpy “rock” surfaces which seems like a good place to mention that “rock” is not monochrome (not even fake rock) and it has texture not just bumps, and the detail should not stay at the same resolution in the distant background as they are in the foreground. When you put fake backgrounds in make sure they don’t overlap the foreground, once again fade them so they aren’t at a higher resolution than things in the foreground, and specifically watch for disproportionate things like tiny leaves bigger than a person’s head, oh and try not to cut peoples hair into blocks when pasting them in the foreground – it’s just silly.
staythecourse
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:24amLooks like they must use a lot of “rag” wrenches for those submarine engines…LOL.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:47amLeaked truth only hurts liars, I have no problem with that.
Report Post »Okiegal
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:38amHmmmm, strange don’t you think? Who is leaking the leaks to wikileaks? Do you honestly think anyone can come along and just find this stuff on the net? Are they hacking into govt servers and stealing this stuff? Does it come und FOIA? Hmmmm…Just asking…
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:35amthis continued nonstop escalation of the destruction of America, courtesy of george soros and his total coward “stepchild” obama. .
Report Post »Johnnie5-0
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:29amSome of the pictures look computer generated. Otherwise looks like an interesting place to work..if its real.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:07amMy thoughts too. It does seem photo chopped in some ways. Also, it may be thirty meters down…but itis only a few yards in from the street. (I’m sure that those “few yards” are secured by heavy doors should there be a need)
There are elements about the rooms which house high end computer equipment that just don’t seem to provide for a “clean” room environment. I mean… my experience under ground is that you do get some dust /stone particles that would fall down at times…even with hard granite…but who am I to speculate. I would just think that the computers would be contained in more of a closed in protected room within the rock caverns…sort of a room within the room. But maybe you folks in the military who have been below ground in these protected vaults can provide more insight. My experience has been in more of a “wild” cavern.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:26amTime for the 500 lb bunker buster and be done with it fast.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:21amLooks like you guys are hiding from someone ,, maybe if you was nt so hated you would nt be so paranoid
Report Post »NewFreedomBlog
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:20amWhere is the problem with all of this again? The more information we have as citizens, the more protected we are from those who want to harm us.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:32amIs this any more harmful than a president appologizing in every speach?
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 10:08amThe problem with this leak is not so much the info, but what the government will do in response. This seems WAY to orchrastrated, watch for a limitation of YOUR liberties- it’s coming.
Report Post »peezee
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:10amI think the CIA is more interested in the wet-ware.
Report Post »Spirit-of-76
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:10amIs it just me or is the world becomming more and more like a Marvel comic every day? The evil masterminds are coming out of the wood work, governments are useless and hopeless. Where will the super-hero come from? Glad I’m a man of God….
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 10:25amSuperheroes are secular inventions to keep us away from our only Savior, God. Thus my username. :)
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:10amPump offal down the air intake.
Report Post »Spirit-of-76
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:17amWhy do I find that funny?
Report Post »w4jle
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 2:34pmLaughed so hard I nearly busted an offal…
Report Post »BlazingBlonde
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:07amI have been wondering for a very long time who is funding this. Now we see an incredible and expensive compound. People man this thing.. who pays them? Follow the money. Will find it interesting investigation when i get home from trip. hmmm Lets all do some investigating and meet back here with what we find at some point!
Report Post »Spirit-of-76
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:06amThat could be made to look that way with common stage techniques. It’s probably an industrial park just outside of Stockholm.
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 10:22amI believe you all are right, to well orchestrated for a group of free lancers. Our govt. cant stop these guys?
Things that make you say hmmmm!! Watch the other hand.
To many ex-military people on here say something stinks, they should know.
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:04amwhoever thinks wikileaks is the problem is getting played
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 3:15pmI’m starting to think the same thing myself. If WikiLeaks divulged irrefutable evidence that Obama was a practicing muslim, there might be a problem for the guy leaking this info.
This reeks of a selective divulging of information.
This is all part of the “ends justify the means” plan of action from the progressive left-wing IMO.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:59amagreed… a set up…. with inside players.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 8:49amIt is definitly a setup and it is escalting exponentially. Since the Nov. elections they just got a wake up call, they know their time is short, it is all or nothing RIGHT NOW you can see the other facets of the plan coming to light. Yesterday on Glenn Beck he revealed their food saftey bill which will drive food prices through the roof, and who is doing this, Monsanto (Spooky Dude) it is all snowballing down the hill. For the progressives, it is now or never. I have to say, they are better organized then anyone suspected.
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:02amhow can the truth ever be a catalyst to anything but the inevidentable.
i say governments and militaries are the bubbles no one wants to talk about. governments are vehicles for the rich and corps to control peoples behavior.
Makes me concerned US military is so concerned and using words like blood on the hands. All they have to say is 50% of messages are noise and we will not tell you what is true. Create misinfo, they are good at that.
Report Post »Nightstalker
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:02amHis servers maybe protected in a bunker,
Report Post »But he is not!
If these document releases were not sanctioned
by the O regime they would not be happening!
They are just sauce for the goose.
The goose is already cooked.
We are the goose!
World opinion towards US will continue to be undermined.
Until the world cries out for American regime change.
Moocephus
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:00amOkay we have our target, lets do some testing….BUNKER BUSTERS!!!!
Report Post »Marcobob69
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:52amIt’s way too orchestrated, I would say inside job! Funded by…..you know who!!! SPOOKY DOOD!!!
Report Post »Oath2Honor
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:56pmMoocephus, Think Satellite Feed Scrambling! Not Bunker Busting…no need to waste time. If a satellite does not relay a signal…oops, no one recieves the information? copy?
Report Post »GWSchool.Net
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:55amWho is funding these guys?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:00amThat was the first thing that popped into my mind, where is the money coming from? This takes a lot of money. Stealing stuff must pay very well.
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:04amFollow the money.
Report Post »kuhl
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:15amPerhaps Mr. Soros ahs some stock in the company.
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 2:58amsoros is just one “face”. There are others.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:53amIs this for real??
A few pounds of PTEN placed at the fiber optic cable junction leading to this place would put it out of business. If they use satellite up link then a lovely RPG would take care of that.
Just saying…
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 1:47pm@ NickDerringer
And how long after that would The Blaze and Glenn Beck suffer the same fate if the government grants itself the power to do it to WikiLeaks and Assange?? Read my post above and then please do as Glenn asks us to do and do your homework! You‘re playing right into the Progressive’s hands by allowing your unthinking, quick anger to rule your emotions.
THINK!!
Report Post »Oath2Honor
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:27pmWho said anything about the Government being involved? Why would they have to be involved? There are ways to get things done without the Government being involved? Do you copy that?
Report Post »uhadenoughyet.com
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:09pmThis is just the beginning. In case you didn’t know it, the SIPR is the basis for the NIPR, not the other way around. Put another way, the secret internet used by the US military is the core of the internet itself and the rest of the internet is derived from it. What am I saying? The US Government can and should pull the plug on wikileaks anytime it wants. This is not a matter of freedom of the press this is a matter of protecting secret classified documents from public view, period. Since the Gov. could but isnt pulling the plug, you are only left with a few reasons, respect for freedom of the press? I dont think so. I say this wikileak dude is in cahoots with Obama and soros and Clinton and the rest of global crime INC. there is a battle raging folks between warring factions of the same global criminal enterprises and this is just another attack meant to precipitate what is about to follow.
Report Post »By the way I am a former US Army intelligence Analyst with two deployments to IRAQ in 03 and 06 and PFC terdberger would have had access to all of this stuff on the SIPR. In 07 and 08 the DOD made it unlawful to introduce any external drives or thumb drives to a government computer and the only way to extract info was to hard disk. He was in Iraq and I can tell you from firsthand experience the SIPR is not regarded with the kind of respect by the folks who have access to it while in theater. He would not have been able to do what he did had he been operating in an S-2 cell here in the states. Hell I watched soldiers put porn on the sipr computers they had and when I complained it fell on deaf ears.
benrush
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:52amOK, I’m impressed already. Stop tickling me.
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 8:57amWell…who can question a source named boingboing? The kid who leaked this stuff should be choked by Bobby Knight.
Report Post »Journalist Stunt Double
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:20amNothing new. Half of the websites from Fortune 500 companies are hosted in server farms comparable to or better than this.
The real question is, which .gov sites are also hosted on a server rack right next to Wikileaky’s?
We’re being played.
Report Post »FrankSpeak
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:20amFunding source? Maybe Soros?
Report Post »RightWrite
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:38amIt’s hilarious! The DHS can shutdown a website selling fake designer shoes and purses, but can’t shutdown a site exposing classified documents? What a joke we are. This regime has its‘ head so far up its’ ass.
@leftfighter
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:43amGreat, so since we know where it is, why can’t we introduce a really, really bad technobug in the servers to erase their data and melt down their hardware?
Won’t stop them, but will slow them down.
I still think this is orchistrated. Top down, bottom up, inside out, and Wikileaks had nothing aside from troop numbers and unit’s equipment until the Obama Road Show came to town.
Where are the leaks really coming from? You think one Army PFC already in custody really has access to classified State Department memos from 30 years ago? There’s the smoke. Where’s the fire?
Report Post »SavvyCowboy
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:51am*FRANKSPEAK* is dead on – George Soros is behind this 100%. That commie b*st*rd will do whatever it takes to destroy the United States of America (his “great satan”). Let’s hope that old turd becomes worm food quickly.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 10:01am@The Blazers
What we are seeing here today is a new form of hyper warfare; the battleground is of information and propagrandizing. Overwhelm the nations you are targeting with falsehoods, concerns, and such, and you cause the chaos Soros so loves. This is what is going on, and we need to get it stopped before the other countries turn on us fully.
On the Voice to America show Sunday night, many people spoke of Obama as the ‘President of the World’ and turned upon the Amercians for the economic collapse of Europe and other world nations that is happening.
I have been wondering what the next large move Soros has been planning would be; this is it, control and discrediting of the information of the USA and Obama will next gut the intelligence agencies who have also demonstrated their uselessness on stopping the terrorists.
He will change the HSA to be the new intel agency, consolidating more power within a single agency who also will control every aspect of the Amercian society for the sake of ‘national safety.’
Report Post »Peters
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 11:49amOf course . . . There are people that commit suicide all the time. But then, there are those with a related propensity; one that only takes solace in watching others perish or endure pain.
And in that, we recognize that there are deep rooted psychological problems here, problems that are very much connected to liberalism whether we want to think of it that way or not. But the reality is simple to recognize: The sooner that society views these individuals for what they really are, what it is that they’re inflicted with, the sooner it will enable itself to gain distance from liberalism’s recurring destructive actions.
There clearly needs to be a strong movement in the field of medicine that originates from the notion that liberalism is a serious human disorder that follows many of the same paths as psychoses. It can be theorized that liberalism’s destructive complexities make them most difficult if not impossible to cure; but we owe it to them as human beings to empathetically try. Certainly, there must be a break point when the character can still be rescued, an age where liberalism’s arrested states of development are still reversible and do not tend too strongly yet toward the illusions of grandeur that dominate the psychotic liberal psyche.
Ultimately though, liberalism is poised to make a stand . . . The patients have taken over the asylum and want to rule the world . . . And it sounds all too much like the typical tragedies these ill people are famous for throughout the history of the world . . . since time began.
Report Post »CaptC
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 12:08pmRIGHTWRITE
Your making the Bold assumption that this Administration actually wants to stop these files getting published. How better to destroy our international credibility, the ACTIONS of this Administration speak volumes. This Administration has done more to bring this country low in the last 22 months than the Soviets could do in over 70 years. Are these ACTIONS in line with the ‘Dreams” of someones Father?
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 3:00pmAnd when is Specter scheduled to release more documents?
Report Post »Ken
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 3:00pmFor all you trigger-happy peeps out there…if you blow up this server bunker, spooky dude will fund another one like it. Just follow the money!
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 3:36pm@bluestrat: You have the right idea. Take a look at what this is. Unadulterated, raw information without a filter or spin. Do we think that the internet is better or worse for being able to find raw information that hasnt been “pre-approved” for public consumption by government officials or agencies or even mainstream news outlets? I for one believe that the more light that is shown into the governments affairs, the more knowledgable we are of just how much they are capable of lying to us about. This leaked information can be spun any number of ways depending on who picks and chooses the info and how they present it. If WE of all people begin clamoring for the government to crack down on internet information that THEY deem detrimental to our “national interests”, they will smile, pat us on the head, thank us for “finally seeing it our way” and begin systematically shutting down all information and websites that disseminate information that is not supportive of the administration‘s public narrative or the administration’s goals. Is the current administration’s goals for the country in line with YOUR goals?
That being said, I do not like or trust Julian Assande. The first thing I thought of yesterday when I heard about their servers being under cyber attack was that something wasnt right there. Who was behind the attack? And I began researching interviews and info on him (not much known). I specifically began searching for Soros connections and was not surprised that Glenn and company began researching the same thing. Yeah, he’s all over this. Quite a few Soros funded organizations, Communist organizations and Soros related individuals are assisting Wikileaks. The thing is WHY? Is it because initially his work was detrimental to the Bush Administration? Maybe. But another thing to keep in mind when you hear of our government shutting down a site selling knockoff Prada and essentially ignoring Wikileaks (assuming the cyber attack wasnt orchestrated by our govt.) is that they apparently WANT Wikileaks to exist. What if Wikileaks actually DOES release some information that results in the death or deaths of individuals working with our government or military? It is precisely that kind of incident that would provide an opening for the administration to intentionally throw out the baby with the bathwater. Instead of simply putting an end to Wikileaks, they would install regulations or policies against any and all websites that they consider “dangerous”. Many of the current administration’s staff and counsel as well as the POTUS himself have deemed Beck, FoxNews, Rush and any and all conservative or dissident voices as dangerous to the nation. Do not play the part of the duped pawn fellow patriots!
Freedom has its risks, as does any endeavor in which an individual takes upon himself responsibility. If we give up those risks or responsibilities, we are giving up the very freedoms to which those responsibilities are attached. The freedom of press has its risks. To forfeit those risks is to forfeit that freedom itself.
Report Post »Oath2Honor
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 5:21pmCalling All Crackers! Challenge! Challenge! Check? Do You Copy?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:16pmIf the gov’t controls the net, they control the news and ALL news/current event information we will be allowed to receive.
Propaganda= a message designed to persuade its intended audience to think and behave in a certain manner.
Report Post »nateums
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:48amNo Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.
Well, now we know who Emilio Largo is, but where is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the rest of SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion)?
And where is MI6 on this? Shouldn’t they be sending their best agent in to clear out some bad guys and have martinis?
Report Post »nateums
Posted on November 30, 2010 at 3:52amAnd isn‘t it strange that this ’crisis’ of information is happening at the same time as the black list bill?
Report Post »truthwinz
Posted on December 1, 2010 at 6:36am@ BLAZE
Report Post »Where did Bluestrat’s 11/29 post go?