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Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
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#152A bit of an interesting dilemma in the spirit of transparency. Given an N-way race, do you just reveal secrets pertaining to one participant (since this may be all you have) or do you with-hold until you can reveal secrets from all participants?
I've been struggling with this a lot. Granted it's pretty much all speculation, but if it is a state actor that is giving Wikileaks this information, and if said state actor was trying to influence the election, I question the responsibility of Wikileaks. It could also be (and I'm aware of this) simply that they're exposing information on "my" candidate, in which case maybe I'd feel differently if was the other way a…
Given that most of the leaks are emails from a single party, when said party was known to use a weak email server, which was known to have been hacked at one point, my guess is that it could be anyone, and doesn't need to be a 'state actor'.
PS. Have you seen the Podesta emails? They range from hilarious to pretty disturbing.
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#153I wonder if he's bluffing with the MD5 hashes that were tweeted out. No way to know.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you suggest Sweden should interview him? Attack an embassy?
Just go visit. He already agreed that it would be ok long ago.
It's not that simple. They had to find a procedure that is acceptable to Swedish, Ecuadorian and British courts. These negotiations have only recently been completed and a meeting has tentatively been booked for the end of October.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scary timing. So one possible reason this could be is to stop him from rallying the troops.
You actually believe some 4channers when he says he is a intelligence officer? I have a bridge to sell you...
No, I don't believe it, but it is a possibility I had not thought of and the fact that Assange's internet access has been shut off lends at least a little bit of credibility to the comments (note how that post was made already 8 hours ago).
also, why would I believe some anonymous HN'er about anything. Information is either true or false, the source isn't really relevant, all that matters are the facts.
Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
#157From the bowels of 4Chan https://i.imgur.com/abcVS6q.jpg
I'm afraid to look
It's not that bad, it's an imgur link and the only thing objectionable about the image is an abstract version of pepe.
That said the content of the post is pretty unbelievable.
TL;DR: a 4chan poster claiming to be an intelligence officer says that the United States forced Ecuador to allow extradition of Assange.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Weren't the Podesta e-mails the wikileak from last week?
They've been releasing more everyday.
It's unlawful for you to visit the Wikileaks site.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7877498936496005...
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scary timing. So one possible reason this could be is to stop him from rallying the troops.
You actually believe some 4channers when he says he is a intelligence officer? I have a bridge to sell you...
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#160My guess is that the US is applying pressure on Ecuador. They want the leaks to stop.
Ecuador already has incentives to stop helping Trump, as Trump has recently taken a hard line against Latin American strongmen, of which Correa, President of Ecuador, is one. Some assurances from Hillary, and threats from Obama, could have been enough to push him over.
I imagine that one of the currently unspoken fears that the Democrats have with wikileaks is that they've built up immense credibility and could choose to cash it in by dropping a fake leak a day or two before the election. Or they could drop an incredibly damaging REAL leak, which is even scarier for the Democrats. There's no doubt that the Clintons have skeletons in their closet.
What I find extremely disturbing is that Obama was fine with RT and Wikileaks when they were mostly advancing the then-leftist agenda of better relations with Russia and US non-interventionism. Now that things have shifted and they are now undermining Obama's agenda and chosen successor, he's suddenly discovered his inner cold warrior.
The real winner here is Mitt Romney. The Democrats mocked him, nothing short of laughing in his face, when during the 2012 election he said Russia was our biggest geopolitical threat. Obama, around the same time, was caught telling the Russians he could be "more flexible after the election". They took that flexibility and marched all the way into Ukraine, Syria, and (allegedly) DNC and Clinton email servers with it. Obama owes him an apology.