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Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by openasocket »

ficklepickle wrote: post #45
roenxi wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But the Russian wetworks division, under Putin's authority, has its fingerprints all over the Salisbury attack. There is strong circumstantial evidence, but proof is a slightly different game. It would be nice, for example, to have a clear motive for why Russia might have poisoned the man. According to the wiki article the Russian justice system had sentenced him to 13 years in a penal colony in 2006, and then hand…

He kept working against the Russians after the exchange. Lately, he was seeking permission to return to Russia. His phone was off for 4 hours before he was found unconscious.(can't find the sources right now, on mobile, but you can trust me ;) ) He took a meeting, hoping to be allowed back, and instead was poisoned. Sounds plausible to me, but then again its really similar to the plot of McMafia. But it just as easil…

Novichok agents are hardly untraceable. Like pretty much every other compound, you can detect them using mass spectrometry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_spectrometry).

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by acct1771 »

olefoo wrote: post #24
alacombe wrote: post #15

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At this point, they can give any plausible reason, it wouldn't make a difference. They're just bending over to the US... It's surprising they lasted that long already :-/

That is a deeply condescending statement that does nothing but display your own ignorance of the norms and constraints of international diplomacy. Ecuador would at this point in time be fully justified in declaring that Assange was no longer welcome on their territory and expelling him from his hidey-hole. That they are merely cutting off his internet is extremely generous of them given the trouble and expense he has…

Why would they do that after somewhat recently making him a citizen?

What changed their mind? His behavior certainly hasn't changed.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by Digital-Citizen »

ucaetano wrote: post #53
burger_moon wrote: post #46

Doesn't Assange have a 'dead mans switch' which will trigger when he doesn't have internet access after a given amount of time? There were articles about a false alarm last year maybe along these lines. Curious if this will result in a dump of more content or something else.

> Curious if this will result in a dump of more content or something else. Given how many times he has promised leaks and not delivered, most likely it won't.

Exactly when were each of these promises made and what was promised each time? Please give us the details.

So far WikiLeaks' publications are what they claim the publications are, and WikiLeaks has released a number of "insurance" files such as:

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8823724/WikiLeaks_insurance...

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8823728/WikiLeaks_insurance...

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8823733/WikiLeaks_insurance...

https://archive.org/details/WikiLeaks_Insurance_File

which I understand we're all encouraged to share widely in the event the key to decrypt one or more of them is released. I don't know what's in any of the insurance files.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by dingaling »

throwaway84742 wrote: post #132
gwicks56 wrote: post #6

A pringles can, and somebody sympathetic within a mile, and no problem. Unless they threaten to throw him out for accessing the internet.

I would be surprised if a Pringles can can do it. This stuff is symmetrical. If signal can get in and out from one end, it can also get in/out from the other, meaning MI6 would be able to listen in on their diplomatic correspondence. So there’s probably a serious Faraday cage around the place.

A Faraday cage at building-scale is just that, a cage to attenuate omnidirectional signals.

The Pringles antenna for wifi, or a Yagi or parabolic dish, is strongly directional and can pass through the voids in a cage when aligned. It just needs 12.5cm between the cage elements, like a window.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by throwaway84742 »

dingaling wrote: post #145
throwaway84742 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would be surprised if a Pringles can can do it. This stuff is symmetrical. If signal can get in and out from one end, it can also get in/out from the other, meaning MI6 would be able to listen in on their diplomatic correspondence. So there’s probably a serious Faraday cage around the place.

A Faraday cage at building-scale is just that, a cage to attenuate omnidirectional signals. The Pringles antenna for wifi, or a Yagi or parabolic dish, is strongly directional and can pass through the voids in a cage when aligned. It just needs 12.5cm between the cage elements, like a window.

Window can too be a part of the cage, if special glass is used. I guess he could open a window, but I don’t think I’d test fate quite so brazenly if I was in his position.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by antocv »

jacquesm wrote: post #68
antocv wrote: post #37

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Yes I did get the memo. This is 2018, now Russia takes the place of "axis of evil" Iraq and Taleban. A greater axis of evil. Much feared bear.

No, Russia is looking after its own interests in much the same way that America did for many years. After all, it's not as if the Americans are lily white when it comes to influencing other people's elections, deposing properly elected governments abroad and funding revolutions when it suited their best interests. So there is a huge amount of hypocrisy there. But that does not excuse Russia for meddling in the affair…

That is so, which is why I see Russia no more evil than USA.

In fact, less so, given the historial record. Funding revolutions, killing 100 000 civilians in another country on other side of the planet from them, was not on Russias list of deeds for past 25 years.

Yemen.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by notahacker »

deleteme12345 wrote: post #131
notahacker wrote: post #114

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Since September 11th the US and UK have showed they're not even willing and able to organise the covert manufacture of nerve agents to "discover" in Iraq to avoid many leading political figures being permanently discredited when nothing was found, never mind manufacturing and using nerve agents to bump off a couple of Russians in a public place in Britain for no obvious political benefit. If you genuinely think the U…

Russia has very little to gain and lots to lose from this shit move. This is not a move that you make on the international checkerboard. Stop taking us for idiots.

Last time a Russian double agent died from a poisoning in the UK, the person the victim named as his murderer on his deathbed was elected to the Russian State Duma. Stop taking us for idiots.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by deleteme12345 »

notahacker wrote: post #148
deleteme12345 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Russia has very little to gain and lots to lose from this shit move. This is not a move that you make on the international checkerboard. Stop taking us for idiots.

Last time a Russian double agent died from a poisoning in the UK, the person the victim named as his murderer on his deathbed was elected to the Russian State Duma. Stop taking us for idiots.

And we've never seen victims being clueless about the murderer? Are you for cereal? This is proof of nothing.

Re: Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at London embassy

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Post by deleteme12345 »

codedokode wrote: post #138
deleteme12345 wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Russia has very little to gain and lots to lose from this shit move. This is not a move that you make on the international checkerboard. Stop taking us for idiots.

Russia has been doing this for a long time, for example Trotsky was assassinated in 1940 [1]. The goal is to remind the "traitors" that the punishment can come at any time and make them live in fear. It reminds me how some religious communities go after the people who don't follow their rules even after they flee to other country [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Assassination [2] https://meduza.io/…

Yeah okay. I'm just going to leave this here:

https://cs9.pikabu.ru/post_img/2018/03/13/8/1520947357114473...

And

http://i12.pixs.ru/storage/2/3/6/Bezimyanni_3398267_29746236...

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