WikiLeaks, despite of regular resistance from some of the world’s most powerful countries like United States has become the complete show stealer in major print and electronic media globally. Generally for it’s releasing of most confidential and secret documents which exposed the diplomatic, political and international relations of countries like Kenya, U.S.A, China, France and India.

WikiLeaks.org, a new media whistle blower website is most commonly known for its publishing of secret U.S. State Department Diplomatic Cables, Afghan War Diary and Kenyan Human Rights situation regarding killings by Kenyan police. WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange is in news headlines since last few months and after Julian Assange’s recent arrest in UK for sex crime charges by Swedish authority the website succeeded in congregating mass of followers in support of Assange’s release.

WikiLeaks’ mission is to keep governments open

It surprised everyone that how WikiLeaks teams of volunteers have managed to gather more than 200,000 secret documents out of which more than 1300 documents has already been released by the website. Their system of collecting information and materializing it is still unknown to most of the targeted governments by WikiLeaks and other nations including media giants and journalists.

Everybody knows that WikiLeaks is a website; it operates online and is not following any traditional media sources to work. Every website is constructed using many technical characteristics and sources like domain name, hosting, design etc.

Talking about design than WikiLeaks is a below average designed site but is supported by a powerful back-end of MediaWiki. MediaWiki is an open source platform used by a number of websites including WikiPedia and is available for free download. This is the reason why the site looks like WikiPedia.

Another great feature of this platform is that it is available in different (spoken) languages hence, encouraging the localization of the data. WikiLeaks is mainly focused on navigation and not on design so that users can get whatever they are looking for. The two most important features are the domain name WikiLeaks.org and the server WikiLeaks data is stored and hosted on.

The domain registrar who had registered the name WikiLeaks had discontinued its service after series of hacking attacks on its website and the site WikiLeaks is not available by its domain name for sometime (it is available now on http://mirror.wikileaks.info/)

Talking about servers where every website is hosting its data base, WikiLeaks have a different and controversial story. It moved from various servers and hosting providers’ country-to-country. However WikiLeaks have their own servers at some undisclosed locations which use military-grade encryption to protect sources and other confidential information. This certainly makes it called bullet-proof hosting.

WikiLeaks’ some servers are hosted by a Swedish company PRQ which is termed as highly secure-no question asking hosting service.

Another WikiLeaks host is Bahnhof AB, their bunker styled office is wrongly famed as WikiLeaks office. Many close photographs have been displayed over internet in past couple of weeks which seriously illustrate how safe WikiLeaks controversial data is.

Let’s see how this 20^th century James Bond style office looks like

Photo credits Bahnhof.se

Some astonishing facts about Bahnhof AB office interior where WikiLeaks data is safely stored

• Originally built in cold war years to survive nuclear attack
• It is buried deep under a granite mountain
• There is only one entry and exit
• Generators of German U-Boat submarines works as a backup power
• Fish tanks, fountains and plants are beautifying the ambiance