Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
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Re: Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
#2I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
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#3I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
A kill switch is different than a dead man's switch; the former is a switch to stop the entirety of a process, and the latter is one that is activated when the human operator is incapacitated.
Re: Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
#4I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
What makes you believe he has that kind of interesting sensitive information in the first place?
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#5> By what authority, or on what pretext, Assange is being tranquilised, and kept isolated, remains unknown
I'm going to go out on a limb and say "ill health".
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#6I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
I'll read that as "[I'd be] surprised if Julian Assange doesn't have a [dead man's switch] in place".
And indeed he does. Some time ago Wikileaks/Assange distributed an encrypted insurance file. The torrent is about 90GB: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-06-03_insurance.aes2...
There was actually multiple versions fo this file, each larger than the previous one. This is the most recent version afaik.
It's likely this particular dead man's switch is actually trusted people though.
Re: Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
#7Are there any other sources on this?
Re: Julian Assange “slowly dying” and “often sedated” in Belmarsh prison
#8I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
He has claimed he does.
Fairly recent article with background https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/julian-assange-dead-mans-swit...
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#9I'm surprised Julian Assange doesn’t have a kill switch in place, where sensitive info which has been held up to this point will be released upon his death or conviction. At least none that we know of.
The problem is, the chaos and shockwave caused by such an event would a) only induce further chaos as a response, and b) likely be interpreted as an attack. Considering the fairness and justice of current proceedings, the response would not only likely be ugly, it would set a precedent difficult to answer. Many possibilities there.
While I don't know, I would be very surprised if Wikileaks itself wasn't sitting on more than enough information to create such a dent. It seems things are effectively at a cross between stalemate and a Mexican standoff. Poor health is better than death, I guess?
It's very sad. If I was told all the details about the sequence of events, but not told which countries were behind the subsequent response, treatment and current conditions, I would not correctly guess on the first try, and probably not the second, or the third...
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#10Why is the WikiLeaks foundation responsible for the content posted on their platform, when Google and Facebook aren’t?
I haven’t really been following this a whole lot, but as I understand it, the US wants him extradited because his platform was used to leak sensible information that put American soldiers in danger. But why is that a thing when it isn’t for other platforms? I mean, twitter, Facebook and YouTube have all been used as effective recruitment platforms for various Islamic terror organisations. That would have put American lives in danger as well.