In the end it was just someone tripping over his ethernet wiring xD...
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Well shit is about to hit the fan. I guess I'll have to wait till morning since it is 2am for me and I have class tomorrow.
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So his router has a hiccup and now the internet is in full crazy mode? I had an internet outage two days ago, but I don't remember going around blaming the CIA, NSA, FSB, or whatever for it.
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Playing devil's advocate: Do you also happen to run an internet trove that is of annoyance to many governing political bodies?
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Does he happen to run it from his home computer? Was his mobile internet access also severed? No? Then what I said still stands. This is storm in a teacup over an internet outage that happens to everyone. The same way if you get a broken nail you just shrug (and file) it off, but if it happens to some random reality show celebrity, it is on the front page of the tabloids. Plus American internet and ISPs aren't exactly known for its stellar stability and reliability anyway.
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I think that is a lot of assumptions. As we don't really know what happened, everything is conjecture at this point.
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Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past couple of years. Can't blame the American's shitty internet on this one :P.
As you said, it might be nothing but it is probably too late now. Either this will be a bunch of hoopla or the next couple of days/weeks wI'll be very interesting.
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Well, same stuff. :) Problem with many Western countries, they had commercial home-use internet so early, now they have serious issues with the network. This is why ironically many Eastern European countries have better internet access than the West, with Romania constantly in a contest with South Korea of who has the fastest home internet speeds. :)
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If only the $6 Billion of taxpayer cash paid to Bell South was actually used to do the job they were contracted for back around the millennium. Instead of providing fiber optics to a majority of the US, they introduced functions such as DSL, call waiting, voicemail, and other features that only cost them pennies to implement while pocketing the rest.
By the time anyone thought to hold them accountable, they had already been declared a monopoly and forced to split into dozens of companies. Poof.
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Romania? doubt that...actually its South Korea, next Sweden
it changes every year but Romania isand was no where near beeing fast...
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You sure? Does Sweden offer 1000/200 plans for 11 dollars?
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you wrote about a contest, particular about the SPEED...not about how expensive it is
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... but u better should be. They're coming, man.
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The OP called it a dead man's switch.
A dead man's switch, by definition, activates automatically when its user no longer is providing feedback to it.
As you can determine by the name, it derives from the concept of someone dying, and releasing [the trigger to a bomb, thus activating it automatically upon their death], but it has usage in cybersecurity, automated transportation and machinary safety elements, and more.
It seems there may not have been any choice available to them in the matter of data release, based on the design they utilized.
Given the significance of their work, there's also likely not really any option other than to take such an approach to things, for the sake of self-protection.
Seeing as I don't see reference to a DMS in the actual tweet, let's move on to the next point:
They indicated it was "a state agency". Unless they're being presumptuous and paranoid, there may have been cause regardless.
And, again, when dealing with governments, it tends to be beneficial to act first, rather than later. When in that line of business, you do have to have a certain degree of paranoia- after all, you're dealing in damaging information related to the most powerful people around. That's always dangerous, especially given the kinds of people that are typically in power.
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It goes much deeper down the rabbit hole. Konrad was just a puppet.
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No idea what that even means. Eh, I'm going to bed.
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It's either a big deal or it isn't. Flip a coin and go to bed, check results in the morning.
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what bothers me is the fact he is deciding to drop information about something specific at the right moment. he is as bad as those governments he is claiming to attack...
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That's one of the problems of Wiki leaks and Assange in particular. He is very clearly picking favourites, and this bias is easy to exploit.
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Also the demanding transparency while not being transparent. I understand the need to "Play the Game" but when slaying monsters you need to be careful not to become them :/ Just my take.
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How funny is that Verizon support, "What problems are you having? We can help." comment string?
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I hope they don't include my weird fetishes in there.
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Shadow Government. Cool beans.
Fucking lizard people.
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Seems like the tweet was indeed hoopla. That or they are taking their sweet ass time to make the dump. Though if it is US related, maybe they are waiting when most of NA is out of work? /shrug
I just feel sorry the poor NA journalists who stayed up all night waiting for something to happen.
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I wish I understood what was Wikileaks, who was Assange, and pretty much everything in this thread. Damn I'm so out of the loop.
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we can always make our wicked leeks and asparagus ,to make our own fruit loops
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Assange is a rapist who is using the information he stole from the US government to stay out of prison in Sweden.
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I didnt really follow it that clossely, but assange was already hunted by america before the claim of rape, so far I understand the rape case is possible a lure to get him delivered too america. But like I said, I didnt follow it clossely...
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They've recently put up a page to dismiss the new pedophilia accusations.
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This is some serious movie material we're getting into now.
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I originally loved Wikileaks. Then, a few years ago, some weird shit started popping up on there on occasion. I'm a pretty hard-line socialist and was anti-Bush, but I read something (can't remember what) that made me take pause. I then realized that there's not a lot of vetting for the sake of anonymity, which is cool, I guess.
Then we saw in recent news, Trump quoting a WikiLeaks article that was taken from a Russian website that had inaccurate information [citation: http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-sidney-blumenthal-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635]
Moral: Take everything WikiLeaks (and anyone else) says with skepticism. This is probably overblown.
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I still think the rape charges against Assange is part of a set-up, other than that i have nothing to add to all this.
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I can imagine America fabricating such charges to get someone back on their soil and even the UK considering our government will do anything that the White House commands. But Sweden? C'mon I can't think of a more politically neutral country.
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the child porn allegations were, according to wikileaks.
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So, basicly, The US pressured Equador, Equador caved in and it came back to bite the US in the ass?
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But...And pleeeeaase pardon any pun...what trump card does wikileaks and Assange have to play now?
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More secret stuff? it is never smart too show your complete hand if you have information about the other party
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Dead man switch got activated because he couldn't check in maybe?
So, could be now stuff got leaked that normally wouldn't have been leaked yet, who knows...
But it's totally what they tried to counter by pressuring Equador to silence him...
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https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787889195507417088
ITS HAPPENING
EDIT: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787915227924992000 - not sure if someone else has access to that account or all of this was a publicity stunt.
EDIT2: no significant updates so far. Russia Today had its UK bank account blocked, anons suspect an unmarked Gulfstream V is currently extraditing assange, no new tweets on the @Wikileaks twitter account and a few people are waiting on the embassy's entrance.
EDIT3: the aircraft is descending now,
not sure where it's going to land at yet thoughlanded at RDU airport.EDIT4: The FBI released part 4 of Clinton's investigation documents. This is heavily redacted. but has a ton of juicy stuff.
BTW - I'll probably update this less often over the next 6~8 hours.EDIT5: That release is much bigger than i thought. Guccifer 2.0 tweeted this. CNBC already has an article indicating references on the documents released to a shadow government. Russia Today mentions quid pro quo between the state department and the FBI. it seems this is just the beginning.
EDIT6: Podesta leaks continue as planned. Whatever happened, doesn't seem like it alters the current flow of releases. Interestingly, there's @clintonfoundation.org emails in there!
EDIT7: Assange still uncontactable, allegedly had its connection cut by Ecuador roughly at saturday 5pm GMT. SATURDAY, not sunday. The switch triggered after 36 hours without a connection, indicating we've been without contact to him for at least two full days now, save for a visit to Assange made by Pamela Anderson.
EDIT8: We're a full 72 hours with Assange offline, no sign of any activity from him so far. In the mean time, allegedly multiple US sources told Wikileaks John Kerry asked Ecuador to silence assange during the FARC peace deal, and that this happened in Colombia near September 26th. Document releases continue as usual, now including allegations of pay-to-play with someone who would be appointed ambassador later on(need a better source), and coordination between Hillary's campaign and Super PACs.
Wikileaks also put up a page to dismiss the recent pedophilia accusations.
EDIT9: Ecuador officially confirms having temporarily cut off Julian Assange's internet connection. Press release in spainish. Downgrading the happening from H1 to H2 in response, despite there being no confirmation of Assange's status so far.
EDIT10: "Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point."
This tweet sounds extremely fishy to me.
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