Seems to me like whichever "state party" this was didn't consider the implications behind their actions. Wikileaks has released insurance files in the past, and I wouldn't be surprised if this doesn't, automatically or not, trigger a dead man's switch for more leaks. If you're a state party trying to prevent leaks, silencing Julian is probably the worst way to go about it. It would be arcane not to think of this scen…
Or there's no insurance files and Assange is bluffing. He won't sit on some scoop harming the United States for long, his ego and power trip would force his hand.
The insurance files are public. They just have to release the keys.
For what it is worth (that is not a lot): https://i.imgur.com/abcVS6q.jpg Though it might be something: a guy claiming to be a CIA intelligence analyst says that Assange is about to get extradited. We will know in the coming hours for sure. If this is true it is pretty damaging to the sexual assault accusations he was facing in Sweden. That would confirm that it was indeed the end-goal of getting him transferred to S…
What it would confirm is that Assange has made himself more trouble than he is worth the the Ecuadorian's and they have decided to simply kick him out of their embassy. They have no moral obligation to continue providing shelter for someone who thinks their protection is some untouchable perch from which to play political games and are simply asking them to leave. Assange is that guy you once knew from high school wh…
I think if this election cycle has taught us anything, it's that allegations of the worst kind can be created for political reasons. Surely Bill Clinton AND Donald Trump AND Julian Assange AND Anthony Weiner can't all be rapists, right? What kind of a world do we live in if they all are?!
I'm assuming parent is referring to the sexual assault and rape allegations against him. Depending on which side you're on you may believe they're made up charges to get him locked up or you may think he's a criminal hiding from doing said things to multiple women (2 IIRC). FYI, at the moment the statute of limitations have ended for the sexual assaults and the rape statute ends in 2020.
It's hard to believe the Ecuadorian government is complicit with helping a rapist escape justice. Rape allegations also fall neatly into NSA/GCHQ's playbook for character assassinations.
Seems more likely the reasons for taking political asylum in a non-US alliance embassy, is, political.
Or there's no insurance files and Assange is bluffing. He won't sit on some scoop harming the United States for long, his ego and power trip would force his hand.
The insurance files are public. They just have to release the keys. 3.6GB - http://wlstorage.net/torrent/wlinsurance-20130815-A.aes256.t... 49GB - http://wlstorage.net/torrent/wlinsurance-20130815-B.aes256.t... 349GB - http://wlstorage.net/torrent/wlinsurance-20130815-C.aes256.t... 94GB - https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-06-03_insurance.aes2... I don't know why they would put out a few hundred gigabytes of fak…
"Bluffing." It takes zero effort to distribute a a few hundred gigabytes of encrypted random data, relative to the amount of investigation and speculation as to what if anything is in those files. They are called "insurance." Assange/Wikileaks wanted to deter actions being taken against him.
Seems to me as likely as not that there is nothing really there.
Pure coincidence I'm sure. It's got nothing to do with protecting Hillary Clinton and claims by many (including Matt Drudge, Milo Yiannopoulos) that today some kind of sex tape (lesbian) of her is going to leak.
Pure coincidence I'm sure. It's got nothing to do with protecting Hillary Clinton and claims by many (including Matt Drudge, Milo Yiannopoulos) that today some kind of sex tape (lesbian) of her is going to leak.
What do you mean "pure coincidence"? How could a state actor cutting off Assange's internet be a coincidence with anything? It was done on purpose by someone for some reason. That is by definition not a coincidence.
That's a fair point. It took me up until 'closeted systemd committer' to realise he wasn't being serious :-)
He had me until PEP8. That was a fair characterization of the Devuan crowd. Edit: Fair characterization of their level of systemd hate; not any correlation to US politics or Wikileaks.
Yep, fully aware of the hate, it was the lack of correlation that did it.
Pure coincidence I'm sure. It's got nothing to do with protecting Hillary Clinton and claims by many (including Matt Drudge, Milo Yiannopoulos) that today some kind of sex tape (lesbian) of her is going to leak.
What do you mean "pure coincidence"? How could a state actor cutting off Assange's internet be a coincidence with anything? It was done on purpose by someone for some reason . That is by definition not a coincidence.
I'm trying to be sarcastic, of course it isn't a coincidence.