Hotspot Vigilantes Are Trying to Beam the Internet To Julian Assange (vice.com)

Ecuadorian government said earlier this week that it did cut off Julian Assange's internet connection. They noted that Assange's continued interference in the U.S. election campaign was the reason why they decided to disconnect Assange from the internet. But it appears some people are going to great lengths to beam internet connectivity to Mr. Assange. This week 4chan urged people to head to the embassy to set up mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, and many are doing just that. From a Motherboard report:"We are now calling all BRITS to get their ass down to the embassy and stand around in mass, taking shifts with wifi-hotspots on hand!" reads the post. "Give Assange constant network and morale support all while streaming it live for the world to see." Are people actually going to try this? Motherboard UK visited the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed political asylum since August 2012, today to find out. Admittedly, on a late October afternoon, things were rather quiet on the street outside the embassy. Nevertheless, I found my guy. "Marco" was loitering outside the embassy, turning on and off his mobile hotspot. I approached him, and while tentative at first, Marco finally started explaining how he was hoping to aid Assange.

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[wonkey_monkey]

Does the guy not have a mobile phone? I hear London has mobile internets and everything nowadays. It's quite the happening little village.

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[peragrin]

No that is monitored by the London police.

What makes this better is most embassy's are designed as faraday cages to help prevent spying both with outside signals and inside signals.

Maybe if massage decided to shack up with a peaceful country instead of a dictatorship he would be better off. Or maybe not support the candidate that wants to stop all trade with Latin countries and calls all Latinos bad hombres.

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[MightyMartian]

If Ecuador has decided to shut off his Internet access to stop him from trying to fuck around with the US election, I have a feeling that they wouldn't be any more tolerant of him using alternative means to continue the campaign. I honestly think that his days hanging out in the Ecuadorian Embassy are numbered, and too much pursuing of his October Surprise strategy is likely to mean he's shown the door.

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[Spy Handler]

Or maybe not support the candidate that wants to stop all trade with Latin countries and calls all Latinos bad hombres.

Actual quote is "some bad hombres". Not "all". I know you believe your cause is just and the other side is evil and therefore it's okay to lie or fudge things here and there, but to neutral observers it makes whatever you say less credible.

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[Dunbal]

How is he in Putin's pocket? Oh wait, Hillary told you this.

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[peragrin]

Right after listening to trump you can except your IQ to drop. I hate Hillary. Kasich would have beat Hillary in the biggest landslide in decades. Cruz would be close but still winning in many key states.

Trump is so arogant, that he makes Hitler look good. When he said he would jail Hillary shows a blast disregard for law, order, and civil society. The president doesn't make arrests, or punish law breakers that is the judicial branches job. The FBI works for the department of Justice not the executive branch.

Trump and his followers are to stupid to know or care that is difference between tin pot doctors of fascists countries and democracy.

Trump has been married three times and his known to have cheated on at least two of those wives multiple times with multiple people. That is a fact. Yet he some how thinks Hillary is to blame for bill cheating. Does he think his ex wives are to blame for his cheating?

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[ahabswhale]

Actually, every intelligence agency in the US told him that.

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[BlueStrat]

However this man is not a hero, he is a criminal trading in stolen goods - goods he stole from every American. We need to keep that in mind.

"Trading in stolen goods" eh?

Since when has theft of public ignorance been a crime?

Oh yeah, ever since we've had criminal politicians who've relied on public ignorance to avoid prosecution, that's when.

Strat

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[Anonymous Coward]

Trump email server is open to everyone. Just heard the other day here on Slashdot.

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[fustakrakich]

Are these the same intelligence agencies that told us about Iraq?

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[JackieBrown]

he would have released all this information weeks ago before they cut off his internet. By parceling it out over the course of October as we get closer and closer to the election, makes him appear more and more like a political player and dissident with an axe to grind...and probably isn't winning him friends at the Embassy.

Kind of like how all the harassment accusations waited until October? Or how that tape from 2005 of Trump saying nasty things was sat on until October?

There is a big difference between "the government is keeping information from the people and they need to know it right now" and "I have information that I think the people need to know about specific things that I support. But I'm going to wait until the right time and place, as determined by me, to release it."

I agree. I feel exactly the same way about how Obama's FBI is releasing the documents they have from Hilary's investigation in pieces making people tired of the story before we even have the complete picture.

That said, I have a feeling that Assange releasing all the documents have more to do with him knowing that she was ok with us killing him via drones than any love of Trump.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Ecuador is in Obama's pocket. Just look into its recent dealings with Goldman Sachs plus John Kerry's visit to Ecuador right before all of this went down.

I do not think Ecuador actually wants to take sides in this, but there is definitely a lot of pressure on them.

Surely Wikileaks can function without Assange

[caseih]

If Wikileaks' work is so important, I'm sure it can continue on without Assange in the loop, surely. In fact it would regain a lot of credibility were this to happen. Lately I think Assange's narcissism is more of a liability than an asset to Wikileaks and its cause.

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[Spy Handler]

I've really not been impressed by all of the Hillary-bashing Wikileaks has been doing lately

So you only like the truth leaked when it's about people you don't like? If there's damning evidence that's being hidden about people you agree with, you would want it hidden?

they're not saying a damned thing about Trump. And it's pretty fucking unlikely they don't have anything on Trump.

Trump was not a gov't official so there isn't gonna be any classified material to reveal about him. He had a real estate business and a TV show. There's plenty of dirt on Trump, like the recording of him talking about groping pussies and such, but revealing those do not require whistleblower protection or the assistance of Wikileaks. You can just take that straight to Extra or CNN.

Dirt about Hillary's doings while a high ranking gov't official is not so safe to reveal. If you get caught leaking it you go to jail. That's where wikileaks comes in.

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[Citizen of Earth]

Perhaps you could explain why the high-ranking Democrat operatives have been fired/"resigned" rather than saying they've been misquoted. Or why Hillary answered the Moderator asking "and we learned this from the Wikileaks..." with "Well if you read the rest of the sentence..." rather than "Those e-mails are all fabricated!" But certainly, if you have no factual counter-arguments, then you're forced to go into ad-hominem attacks against O'Keefe.