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Wikileaks allegeJulian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party (rt.com)

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[–]Talesfromthebeef 1167ポイント1168ポイント  (420子コメント)

They severed Assange's internet or the entire Ecuadorian embassies internet?

[–]TheHatFullOfHollow 776ポイント777ポイント  (234子コメント)

They can hardly do one without the other.

Source: worked for ISP.

[–]LDinthehouse 987ポイント988ポイント  (186子コメント)

So they have cut off 4G to London? It's 2016 and Wikileaks have 'activated the appropriate contingency plans' or to put it simply they nipped next door to Harrods and bought him a dongle

[–]aviewfromoutside 299ポイント300ポイント  (173子コメント)

It's trivial to jam mobiles in a smallish area.

[–]Timey16 336ポイント337ポイント  (129子コメント)

...and highly illegal. At least in Germany, ALL jammers are banned, as you can not exactly control who you jam and who you don't so you will inadvertenly jam the phones of other people, as well, and what do you do, once an emergency happens?

[–]azz808 793ポイント794ポイント  (39子コメント)

highly illegal

Yeah, for you or me.

So is killing thousands of Iraqis. For you or me. (trust me, the courts don't like that kind of thing...)

[–]Kirby420_ 161ポイント162ポイント  (35子コメント)

If it's really a state actor, you realize those jamming laws are worded to explicitly allow them to jam, right..?

[–]IHaveBearArms 149ポイント150ポイント  (27子コメント)

Silly peasents, have you learned nothing from 2016 America? Governments and people being installed into said government don't have to follow the laws...

[–]JustinPA [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

The government has a monopoly on coercive force. Trust me, that fact predates 2016.

[–]nipsen 69ポイント70ポイント  (18子コメント)

Actually, the government has made the whole thing 100% legal. Without any of the members of Congress, or Parliament, that were responsible, paying a price for it in the next election. Instead the opposite has happened several times in a row now.

Once the abuses then become sufficiently extreme - the laws are relaxed further, because relaxing basic protections of freedoms, privacy or human rights proves - to the public - that the threat is real.

Now, if I could only find that time-machine and get the fuck away from 1926 Germany, I'd be out of here.

[–]terraorbem [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Just like what Snowden told us in 2013: the systems have been created and they've been put to use.

The legal framework came later, and can always be applied "rough-patch" if they're working with parallel construction.

Just because the law says something shouldn't be possible doesn't mean it is...

[–]vardarac [スコア非表示]  (14子コメント)

Something I've wondered is why Congress does this. Who are the constituents knocking on their door and writing to them asking them to expand the surveillance state?

[–]terraorbem [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

Most of your friends & family.

Just read letters to the editor in any newspaper (or online column) right after any terrorist attack. See those people clamoring for the abolition of privacy? That's fully 50% of the population right there.

Just like when we're wondering how Erdogan can possibly have enough people to support him: he doesn't need to fake it, people really are that shortsighted, and it's trivial to manipulate them if you have the knowledge and the means.

[–]GitRightStik [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

People who want to be leaders in the president's new Ministry of Truth.

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    [–]b95csf [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

    1926

    you fucking wish. it's 1936 already

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        [–]SpeedflyChris 18ポイント19ポイント  (0子コメント)

        GCHQ can do it though. Not that they are in this case, there was a guy livestreaming the street outside

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            [–]caino1987 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

            i love the idea that this is just an internet outage blown completely out of proportion

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              [–]SCombinator 361ポイント362ポイント  (31子コメント)

              Actually, the headline is technically true if the Ecuadorian embassy changed the router password on him.

              [–]BurgerLaowai 120ポイント121ポイント  (11子コメント)

              "Oops, sorry Julian. The new password is Ecuador0032" every few months we just increment the number. "

              [–]RooftopBBQ [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

              "Julian you know you have to do your share of the chores, and you're not getting the wifi password until you do the dishes!"

              [–]brokenarrow [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

              hunter2

              [–]hlycia [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

              Also technically true if some people doing some road maintenance outside accidentally cut through the fibre cable.

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                  [–]connr-crmaclb 220ポイント221ポイント  (139子コメント)

                  Rumors online saying that he is about to be extradited, as in the Ecuadorians will boot him from the embassy to the UK Police at the demand of John Kerry.

                  This would align pretty well with two of the named parties in the Wikileaks tweets today.

                  If so, Ecuador is blocking him from internet access in the embassy.

                  [–]PM_ME_ANUS_DICKS 58ポイント59ポイント  (92子コメント)

                  Why would Ecuador suddenly cave in?

                  [–]connr-crmaclb 97ポイント98ポイント  (79子コメント)

                  What I saw was a random 4chan post or some shit. A guy saying Kerry was threatening to cut diplomatic ties with them, along with the Brits. He said he worked in the intel community and was basing this off of diplomatic cables. Could be total bullshit though of course. It just sounded plausible considering the named parties in the wikileaks tweet.

                  EDIT: link

                  [–]Gen_Hazard [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

                  Damn that's a rare pepe.

                  [–]JonathanRL [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

                  Random 4chan Post is in this case probably more reliable then Russia Today anyway so...

                  [–]springfieldfats [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

                  It's me, John Kerry. We're sending Julion Assang to prison right now. It's Danbury correctional institute. Julion is going to be on the next season of Orange is the New Black.

                  [–]SuckMyEULA [スコア非表示]  (19子コメント)

                  I highly doubt that Kerry would even suggest cutting diplomatic ties with the UK. Crazy shit would have to go down for that to ever be on the table.

                  Edit: Ok, I realize he meant that the UK was also considering cutting ties with Equador, not that we wanted to cut ties with the UK. Not the they woukd have had a source anyway.

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                      [–]hezdokwow 23ポイント24ポイント  (10子コメント)

                      .....why host him all this time then suddenly get ready to hand him over unless backdoor threats are made?

                      [–]absinthe-grey 97ポイント98ポイント  (30子コメント)

                      Rumors online

                      Yeah, I just wasted 10 mins investigating one of them in this thread:

                      /r/worldnews/comments/57vu5j/julian_assanges_internet_link_has_been/d8vhgdm

                      So far, the only evidence I have seen is a tweet sent from wikileaks this morning. I think I will check again later after the /conspiracy crowd gets downvoted here.

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                        [–]studiov34 131ポイント132ポイント  (5子コメント)

                        He tripped over an ethernet cable.

                        [–]TiePilot 81ポイント82ポイント  (26子コメント)

                        I work in SATCOM, I highly doubt the Ecuadorian government would only be getting its internet via landline only. Now if they would grant Assange access to the satellite link might not be possible (COMSEC).

                        Most likely the Ecuadorians have cut him off. the "why?" could be a simple mistake or as disheartening as that they made a deal w/ the devil and Assange is getting booted.

                        [–]RelaxationNation 32ポイント33ポイント  (12子コメント)

                        People need to look at the flip side of this - maybe he's refusing to release information they want him to release, so they're cutting him off in hopes of activating a dead man's switch.

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                          [–]SteveJEO 28ポイント29ポイント  (0子コメント)

                          Verizon UK's been pretending really hard there's not actually been a massive fuck up at their london datacentre this weekend so if the embassy is on one of their lines bye bye interwebz...

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                            [–]jedilion 452ポイント453ポイント  (8子コメント)

                            haha I'm imagining some BT engineer accidentally unplugging something suddenly thinking "shit now I've started a international incident"

                            [–]EonBlueAegis 1391ポイント1392ポイント x2 (191子コメント)

                            You know, this is very interesting timing..

                            [–]Belostoma 792ポイント793ポイント  (51子コメント)

                            Indeed it is.

                            On this day (October 17th) in the year 1091, an F4 tornado struck downtown London.

                            In 1814, eight people were killed in a flood of beer, also in London.

                            Not a good day to be in London apparently.

                            [–]interwebcats122 329ポイント330ポイント  (34子コメント)

                            killed in a flood of beer

                            There's definitely worse ways to go

                            [–]iamatroglodyte 145ポイント146ポイント  (14子コメント)

                            oh we used to dream of being killed in a flood of beer

                            one summer all sixteen of us drowned in half a cup of mulled wine

                            [–]oosuteraria-jin [スコア非表示]  (9子コメント)

                            Luxury! We used to have to try drown ourselves in grape juice by sucking on a damp cloth

                            [–]screaming_underwater [スコア非表示]  (6子コメント)

                            Damp cloth? Consider yourself lucky lad. We had to draw our own blood to wet ours.

                            [–]silence_in_samarkand [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

                            you're lucky you had blood! we had to give ours up to our dear sweet mother. we had to suck on a dry sock that someone had worn in a cellar once to get our kick of booze!

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                              [–]Tintin113 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                              Mulled wine!? Ooh-la-la! Back in my day the whole village perished in a small puddle of industrial waste!

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                                [–]terraorbem [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                Well, depends. The guys who died on impact weren't so lucky.

                                The others, though, who got out three times to pee? They didn't have it so bad.

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                                    [–]ani625 186ポイント187ポイント  (89子コメント)

                                    Reddit is going to explode with this news.

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                                      [–]SlowNumbers 2463ポイント2464ポイント  (59子コメント)

                                      Folks, maybe we're overreacting. For all we know his connection wasn't severed, but rather it was curated to help us better enjoy more agreeable media programming.

                                      [–]FindMeTheTruth 578ポイント579ポイント  (11子コメント)

                                      Someone at the embassy probably wiped their server with a cloth.

                                      [–]richard-io 163ポイント164ポイント  (1子コメント)

                                      Maybe it's busy being fact checked by the Ministry of Truth over at Google.

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                                        [–]Agastopia 668ポイント669ポイント  (35子コメント)

                                        It'd be funny if the wifi just went down

                                        [–]WeDoTheWeirdStuff 222ポイント223ポイント  (13子コメント)

                                        "Sorry, my bad. Cable was unplugged."

                                        [–]113243211557911 96ポイント97ポイント  (2子コメント)

                                        And subsequently the deadman switch was activated.

                                        'Oh shit, oh shit' - Assange 5 minutes ago.

                                        [–]jimflaigle [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                        Prepare to have the internet flooding with pics of Julian's wang.

                                        I mean, that's what I'd do with a deadman switch.

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                                          [–]torb 91ポイント92ポイント  (8子コメント)

                                          Forgot the password.

                                          [–]runpmc [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                          I think we all know what really happened.

                                          [–]expandingsun 11ポイント12ポイント  (0子コメント)

                                          "Sorry world, forgot it was supposed to be a lower case r!"

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                                            [–]Leadback 232ポイント233ポイント  (83子コメント)

                                            The appropriate contingency plans? A dump of cables?

                                            [–]AntManMax 399ポイント400ポイント  (68子コメント)

                                            The Wikileaks contingency is to release everything they have depending on the severity of the infraction committed against the Wikileaks member.

                                            So we could be getting much more.

                                            [–]terraorbem 176ポイント177ポイント  (34子コメント)

                                            I've been holding on to their "insurance file" for 4 years. No idea what's in there if the keys are ever released.

                                            [–]enigmamarine 117ポイント118ポイント  (13子コメント)

                                            They released a new 80gb file a few months back

                                            [–]terraorbem 57ポイント58ポイント  (11子コメント)

                                            I only have the old one from when he was first "imprisoned" in the Embassy.

                                            [–]binaryecho [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                            They released a new 80gb file a few months back

                                            This one?

                                            2016-06-03_insurance.aes256

                                            [–]will99222 27ポイント28ポイント  (9子コメント)

                                            There are several "insurance files"

                                            [–]faptimussprime [スコア非表示]  (7子コメント)

                                            There are more than one. But Assange has one insurance file that no ones has and will release in the case of his death. Snowden has one as well. Snowden insurance file is what scared the living shit out of hte US to cancel his passport. Russia wants it but can't get it due to his international prestige. This is also a great propaganda victory for Putin to keep Snowden alive.

                                            [–]dennisisspiderman [スコア非表示]  (6子コメント)

                                            Snowden has one as well. Snowden insurance file is what scared the living shit out of hte US to cancel his passport.

                                            That sounds confusing to me. If Snowden has an insurance file and having that insurance file scares the US, wouldn't they want him to have a US passport so he can come to the US and get captured and have the insurance file taken away/secured?

                                            I'm not getting why it would be better for him to be stuck in places like Russia with that very scary file instead of being allowed to come back to the US.

                                            edit: To clarify, I'm not so confused at the insurance file and whether or not the US could access it, etc. I'm confused as to why if this man had such "scary" information, why would the US revoke his passport and have him stuck in Russia, which is generally regarded to as an enemy of the US. If the files he had were really so dangerous, wouldn't it be in the US's best interest to allow him to travel elsewhere?

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                                                  [–]wextippler 26ポイント27ポイント  (6子コメント)

                                                  Digging up 56k modem.

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                                                    [–]the-establishment [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

                                                    Exposing Our crimes is the worst crime of all!

                                                    [–]Unit_0 [スコア非表示]  (12子コメント)

                                                    RT Bank Accounts frozen! Possible connection? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37677020

                                                    [–]curious_groge [スコア非表示]  (48子コメント)

                                                    Beware.. a lot of misinformation and disinformation in this thread. Form your own opinions. Think objectively. Wait for more information.

                                                    Edit: RT.com's bank accounts frozen in UK

                                                    [–]charging_bull [スコア非表示]  (18子コメント)

                                                    At this point, all we know is 1) Assange's internet is down; 2) Wikileaks says, without further corroboration, that it is the work of a "State Party."

                                                    [–]iamplasma [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                    But surely nobody’s internet has ever gone down without state actor involvement, right?

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                                                      [–]Weemm [スコア非表示]  (7子コメント)

                                                      WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

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                                                        [–]Max_Trollbot_ [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

                                                        Windows 10 update strikes again.

                                                        [–]Absolute_Wanker 1257ポイント1258ポイント  (209子コメント)

                                                        CAN'T WE JUST DRONE THIS GUY???

                                                        /s

                                                        [–]FindMeTheTruth 531ポイント532ポイント  (152子コメント)

                                                        Hey, HEY, Hillary NEVER said that! She only asked if we could drone him, not whether or not we could drone him!

                                                        [–]arnedh 96ポイント97ポイント  (3子コメント)

                                                        Depends on what your definition of "if" is...

                                                        [–]DogPooSalad 79ポイント80ポイント  (2子コメント)

                                                        If if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if

                                                        If if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if

                                                        Okie doke

                                                        [–]GoingSavageLike 164ポイント165ポイント  (139子コメント)

                                                        What is that from? She can't have been serious. If she seriously considered that she's not fit to be president. It had to be a joke if it was at all real.

                                                        [–]spaceman2121 267ポイント268ポイント  (97子コメント)

                                                        The word on th vine was that everyone in the room thought she was joking and laughed. But theb she asked again and they knew she was serious

                                                        [–]GoingSavageLike 98ポイント99ポイント  (91子コメント)

                                                        Wait, is this a rumor or was this on an actual leaked memo?

                                                        I think I need more information. I can't imagine a woman who has been running for president for decades who was Secretary of State would've done that? its such an ignorant statement. It ignores so much I can't imagine she woudknt have considered. So, unless there's hard proof, I'm not even going to believe it. It's just so idiotic.

                                                        [–]uhmikemikemikemike 168ポイント169ポイント  (48子コメント)

                                                        This is the only source. It was not in a leak. Clinton denied it when asked about it.

                                                        [–]4mb1guous 140ポイント141ポイント  (24子コメント)

                                                        It may as well be a rumor. Here's the snopes article on it.

                                                        Long story short, the only source that exists is some mysterious, unnamed person from TruePundit, what is essentially a blog run by an unknown individual, saying they've got sources that say so despite never mentioning anything specific or verifiable. If you read the original article you'll note several times they use some variation of the phrase, "sources say," which frankly should always make one stop and ask who/what is this source? The site itself is sketchy as hell too. Hell half the time the admin doesn't even write articles, just takes a pic and a few lines of text from another site and just links to it. There are no listed authors on that site, every article is posted by "admin" and there is no accountability or source linking there at all. Nobody even knows who runs the thing. What is clear however is this admin's bias against Clinton, and for Trump. Check their twitter. They constantly retweet stuff Trump says, as well as anything that speaks against Hillary. This admin is definitely pushing a narrative of some sort, and frankly, shouldn't be trusted without actual evidence.

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                                                            [–]DALinProgress[🍰] [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

                                                            She's not fit to be president. Neither is Trump. The election this year is one of the truly scariest I've ever seen. I have zero respect for either candidate.

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                                                                  [–]Fellero 683ポイント684ポイント  (61子コメント)

                                                                  inb4 "barbell incident" or "suicide by two shotgun shots to the back of his head"

                                                                  [–]_Hopped_ 507ポイント508ポイント  (51子コメント)

                                                                  Or the good old: accidentally padlocked himself in a suitcase and drowned in a bath

                                                                  [–]LandenP 91ポイント92ポイント  (22子コメント)

                                                                  That reminds me of the old story of a man found dead of a gunshot inside a locked room, only lockable from inside the room, and with the only window something like 8-10 feet off the ground and only big enough for a small child. No firearm was present at scene and it's still a mystery as far as I'm aware.

                                                                  EDIT: Found the story! https://www.google.com/amp/www.historicmysteries.com/isidor-fink/amp/

                                                                  [–]Jamieman16 30ポイント31ポイント  (11子コメント)

                                                                  Shot through the window?

                                                                  [–]LandenP 37ポイント38ポイント  (8子コメント)

                                                                  That or he was shot by pursuers and locked himself in only to bleed out. I don't remember where he was shot exactly.

                                                                  [–]WezVC 15ポイント16ポイント  (0子コメント)

                                                                  Welp, another mystery solved.

                                                                  Good work, boys.

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                                                                        [–]Wtfshitman 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

                                                                        Just try restarting your netgear router

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                                                                          [–]shocky27 [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

                                                                          Welcome to 1984. CNN saying it's illegal to have Wikileaks documents, except the media. Media still mostly ignoring revelations in Wikileaks. Julian Assange being blacked out. Media are terrified of losing control and this is their response.

                                                                          [–]xaru1 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                          On the BBC website it says that Russia Today's bank accounts in London have all been frozen as well. Crazy.

                                                                          [–]PhysicsNovice [スコア非表示]  (16子コメント)

                                                                          RT.com UK Bank Accounts frozen

                                                                          [–]Legalise_Gay_Weed [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                          The most amazing thing about this whole election cycle is how real journalism, that exposes the crimes of government, is now considered an "attack". The truth is the truth, it has no allegiances.

                                                                          [–]sirJackHandy 74ポイント75ポイント  (34子コメント)

                                                                          What exactly is a "State Party"?

                                                                          [–]Synaps4 123ポイント124ポイント  (23子コメント)

                                                                          In this case, its either the UK government, or potentially the US government. No one else would be able to work on UK soil to disconnect a specific embassy line.

                                                                          [–]aaaaaaaarrrrrgh 112ポイント113ポイント  (11子コメント)

                                                                          Or Ecuador... Wikileaks tweetted a pre-commitment labelled Ecuador - they are probably going to leak something about them.

                                                                          [–]Synaps4 34ポイント35ポイント  (1子コメント)

                                                                          Good point, I can't believe I left that out. I assumed if ecuador was unhappy with him they could just evict him, but yes this could be something more subtle.

                                                                          [–]InadequateUsername [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

                                                                          Why the fuck would anyone with half a brain leak info about the only country in the world standing between them and a US black site?

                                                                          Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

                                                                          [–]lejefferson [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                          I find it hard to believe that they would leak information about the only government in the world who is willing to give them amnesty.

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                                                                            [–]autobahn 19ポイント20ポイント  (0子コメント)

                                                                            or, ecuador itself

                                                                            or, someone hacked into the upstream router.

                                                                            or, a few other possibilities.

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                                                                                [–]_invalidusername 63ポイント64ポイント  (17子コメント)

                                                                                WikiLeaks tweeted that they have activated the appropriate contingency plans. I wonder what that is? Dead man's switch?

                                                                                [–]CountMordrek [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                They dropped a couple of SHA256 values so I presume that we'll see download links if things escalate and then decryption keys for the final blow...

                                                                                [–]TheMLGSpud [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                Hopefully its the hash keys

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                                                                                  [–]MsKim 244ポイント245ポイント  (147子コメント)

                                                                                  R/the_Donald is freaking the hell out over this. Are any major news sources covering it?

                                                                                  [–]ClickHereForUpvote [スコア非表示]  (13子コメント)

                                                                                  Last time Wikileaks was mention in the MSM, CNN told viewer "not to look at the documents, because that's illegal! We can look at them but you can't!".

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                                                                                    [–]imfineny [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

                                                                                    You see how important privacy is? The government will literally murder people to protect its privacy in the same breath it strips always yours, because if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. This has nothing to do with "national security", they have been releasing information about the crimes of those running our country.

                                                                                    [–]cncpoise 215ポイント216ポイント  (69子コメント)

                                                                                    None of this seems genuine to me anymore. The blanket of obscurity statements like these perpetuate resemble that of a classic novel or screenplay.

                                                                                    Maybe it's just because this is my first year really caring about politics, but It seems that when the latest Trump/Hilary kerfuffle burns up, another rises from its ashes. Why treat this information like an ace up a sleeve rather than an ace in the hole? In other words, why the drama? You clearly have information that would effect the outcome of the election, so can't we just skip the theatrics?

                                                                                    I'm just concerned because I see things like; Information being leaked, threats being made, clear evidence of abuse of power in government, lies, sexual assault accusations, etc. yet I don't see the desired effect in people I'm surrounded by everyday. It's like politics has successfully been transformed into another branch of pop-culture, and clear and present dangers are being dismissed as the latest Fox News/CNN narrative.

                                                                                    [–]uncivilobediance 148ポイント149ポイント  (13子コメント)

                                                                                    Maybe it's just because this is my first year really caring about politics

                                                                                    The public's memory is worse than a goldfish. Those of us who've seen a few elections over the years know how strongly the media can influence the outcome. One big dump would be pushed under the carpet and all we'd see in the news between now and election day is the Mosul battle (or some other inane activity) and then the election would be here and people would vote for an establishment candidate and the farce would play on.

                                                                                    But by keeping it going the media has no choice but to at least reference it tangentially and keep it simmering.

                                                                                    The aim is to keep the maximum number of voters aware and engaged come election day.

                                                                                    [–]Rashaverak 51ポイント52ポイント  (4子コメント)

                                                                                    Not only that, but the drama has a real effect on the people who know they are on a precipice. If you think the establishment isn't concerned with what Assange has left, you haven't been paying attention.

                                                                                    This isn't a movie. This is the highest level of geopolitics playing out live in the most socially connected time in history. Nothing has prepared anyone for this.

                                                                                    One thing is for damn sure: If the navigators do get burned by wikileeks in a big way, SOPA and it's zombie offspring are getting RAMMED into law in the next month or two.

                                                                                    Surprised it hasn't happened already TBO.

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                                                                                        [–]AntManMax 176ポイント177ポイント  (19子コメント)

                                                                                        I hope he's still alive...

                                                                                        [–]KarthusWins 155ポイント156ポイント  (6子コメント)

                                                                                        I hope he doesn't get suicided.

                                                                                        [–]Make_E_U_Great_Again [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                        What like, with a drone?

                                                                                        [–]mhol7597 69ポイント70ポイント  (8子コメント)

                                                                                        RT is a state controlled Russian news site isn't it?

                                                                                        [–]fredericogarcia 2184ポイント2185ポイント x3 (493子コメント)

                                                                                        Assange is a hero. Seriously, this guy is literally dedicating his life to serve his ideals of transparent open governments under our very eyes.

                                                                                        While I do my everyday bullshit, Assange is sequestered over bullshit charges and without any regards for due process.

                                                                                        And now this. At this very moment when he is about to dump massive amounts of data about US/UK gov execs's wrongdoings against the interest of the very people they are suppose to serve.

                                                                                        They cannot keep getting away with this. Fuck them all.

                                                                                        [–]dableuf 551ポイント552ポイント  (177子コメント)

                                                                                        How do you cut someone off the internet in the middle of London, when he can get a 4G SIM in minutes? And how is cutting his personal connection in the embassy preventing Wikileaks of releasing anything?

                                                                                        [–]anomie148 287ポイント288ポイント  (102子コメント)

                                                                                        You can get jammers too which block 3g/4g - some restaurants have them.

                                                                                        edit: Unconfirmed twitter users reporting phone signal drops when close to the embassy

                                                                                        [–]dableuf 277ポイント278ポイント  (61子コメント)

                                                                                        But then the whole building and the neighbours would be cut off too. And how would Wikileaks know that it's a "state party" ?

                                                                                        [–]Saxifrage_Russell 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

                                                                                        Restaurants certainly do not have them since they are highly illegal.

                                                                                        [–]joncrocks 15ポイント16ポイント  (7子コメント)

                                                                                        I'd be surprised, I think they'll illegal in the UK/US (for civilian use).

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                                                                                          [–]Hazy_Fantayzee 49ポイント50ポイント  (12子コメント)

                                                                                          This is exactly what I am wondering.... Unless they have cut off the entire internet for the embassy (which would be pretty unlikely IMO), then how do you go about just isolating 'Juilian's' connection?! And whats to stop him just using the embassy connection if they do? And even if they do, then its easy to just organize a sim card to be brought in! Just seems like a lot of drama to drum up a lot of attention for himself/wikileaks....

                                                                                          [–]age_of_cage 32ポイント33ポイント  (6子コメント)

                                                                                          how do you go about just isolating 'Juilian's' connection?!

                                                                                          Be an Ecuadorian official and confiscate his devices.

                                                                                          [–]binaryecho [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

                                                                                          then how do you go about just isolating 'Juilian's' connection?!

                                                                                          MAC filtering?

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                                                                                                [–]Gnometard [スコア非表示]  (5子コメント)

                                                                                                And all the comments mentioning the politics sub ignoring WikiLeaks are being deleted. Jesus Christ this is fucked

                                                                                                [–]maglen69 [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

                                                                                                Would that be considered an attack on a sovereign nation since the embassy itself is Ecuadorian soil?

                                                                                                [–]Vintodrimmer [スコア非表示]  (15子コメント)

                                                                                                Can someone explain how wikileaks works?

                                                                                                Why don't they just expose everything? Why the charade?

                                                                                                [–]anon2413 [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

                                                                                                It takes time to index this data appropriately for searching. They also claim that they vet the source of the documents to try to verify their authenticity. Finally, because they want to stay relevant day after day. If they dump everything all at once, they are only on the front page once. If they do a tiny release everyday, they are on the front page everyday.

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                                                                                                  [–]altmediabot [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                                  As this story develops, notice the contrast in rhetoric between mainstream media and the alternative media.

                                                                                                  [–]Easonisalesbian 102ポイント103ポイント  (11子コメント)

                                                                                                  Something is wrong here

                                                                                                  [–]mobileDevKing 228ポイント229ポイント  (125子コメント)

                                                                                                  Crazy. I can't believe it was the Podesta Email Leaks that got them to take covert action against wiki leaks

                                                                                                  [–]Brad_Wesley 474ポイント475ポイント  (99子コメント)

                                                                                                  It's not the podesta emails, it's whatever they think is coming next...

                                                                                                  [–]torie_anal_gerbiler 95ポイント96ポイント  (70子コメント)

                                                                                                  now i'm very curious as to what that might be.

                                                                                                  [–]jonesrr 276ポイント277ポイント  (48子コメント)

                                                                                                  Rumors have swirled for weeks that Assange got the 33,000 missing HRC State Dept. emails from someone (literally even low level hackers probably have those emails honestly, she accessed that email in China for god's sake and it was sending emails in PLAIN TEXT format unencrypted).

                                                                                                  My guess is they implicate the current president and Hillary both.

                                                                                                  [–]rich-creamery-butter 60ポイント61ポイント  (36子コメント)

                                                                                                  Source for this? The China/un-encrypted plaintext thing. Not arguing, just curious.

                                                                                                  [–]jonesrr 189ポイント190ポイント  (35子コメント)

                                                                                                  Arstechnica has some breakdowns of it: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/09/fbi-clintons-first-e-mail-server-was-a-power-mac-tower/

                                                                                                  She used a completely non-encrypted server for 2 years as SoS no SSL cert even. Then she switched to open RDS protocol Windows Server PCs, one of the (if not the) most vulnerable server configs possible for emails, then she started using unsigned SSL VPNs from a third party only in 2011

                                                                                                  The amount of times she was hacked successfully is probably breathtaking, in China alone state actors scour this sort of thing using automated tools 24/7 and are highly successful breaking into far more difficult servers. That said, I'm positive even low level hacks in HK and Asia that do it as fun were in there stripping all her emails even in 2012 with literally no real obstacles.

                                                                                                  Also had unencrypted backups of the email stored to a attached Seagate external drive on the server itself all the time. So if you breached RDP you got into the full file backup.

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                                                                                                      [–]Scrubbing_Bubbles_ 42ポイント43ポイント  (7子コメント)

                                                                                                      Wikileaks had the same emails months ago that they have now. Hillary or whomever may know what is in those emails, but it is unlikely they know when certain emails will be released. So if there are any "deadly" emails(the kind that will totally change the election), they most likely would have cut his Internet long ago.

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                                                                                                          [–]Aurora_Fatalis [スコア非表示]  (7子コメント)

                                                                                                          I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist, but I got to wonder if the recent spike in fake "Wikileaks" news ending up on Snopes is just a coincidence or if someone wants to smear Wikileaks so the public won't trust future news coming from it.

                                                                                                          [–]SpaghettiMafia 175ポイント176ポイント  (46子コメント)

                                                                                                          This election will go down in history.

                                                                                                          [–]cypher437 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                                          I wonder what Hilary's response will be to the question

                                                                                                          "Did you cut Assange's internet link?"

                                                                                                          "You mean cut with scissors?"

                                                                                                          [–]Louiethefly 91ポイント92ポイント  (12子コメント)

                                                                                                          If Assange's internet was severed by a state party, why haven't they named the state party. Where's the transparency?

                                                                                                          [–]palxma 89ポイント90ポイント  (0子コメント)

                                                                                                          and then can they explain how they know said state party is responsible.

                                                                                                          [–]the_strat 33ポイント34ポイント  (1子コメント)

                                                                                                          Do you suppose it was because Ecuador didn't pay the bill?

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                                                                                                            [–]PhysicsNovice [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                                            RT.com just had their U.K. Bank accounts frozen.

                                                                                                            [–]Smoothglover [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                                            I'm going to get shot for hanging around outside trying to activate a wifi hotspot.

                                                                                                            [–]thesaltysquirrel [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

                                                                                                            Something tells me that a crazy event or catastrophe is going to happen today that will distract all of us.

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