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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.
Does the guy not have a mobile phone? I hear London has mobile internets and everything nowadays. It's quite the happening little village.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
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.
Better to keep quiet and let the power rule, ain't that a fact?
This guy should be considered (actually really is) an international criminal, wanted by multiple countries.
Yeah, he's so dangerous that he's never been charged with a crime.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Or to steal and alter a joke from Steve Martin...
"I believe that President Trump (or Clinton) can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region, covered in ice."
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Right, because he can't be charged until he's interviewed. And he can't be interviewed because he's evading prosecution by hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy.
If you flee before you can be brought before a court and charged, you can claim you've "never been charged." Funny how that works!
Assange has stated that if he had stuff to leak on Trump he would do that, too. But I guess Trump was a bit harder to hack.
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he'll have it back in less than three weeks
Unless Hillary wins, in which case Ecuador will get a little freedom and democracy brought to it. After all, at this point, what difference does it make?
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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.
Did he also elaborate on how he planned to abet as well?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
They've dump all kinds of info of real value. Here's one that links the violence incitement at Trump rallies back to the DNC
They've also just released some of Obama's emails where they're discussing picking positions with race and sex as the criteria. Pretty blatant racism and sexism there.
But the DNC-supporters don't listen to facts, they act on emotion, years of poor eduction, and DNC programming. There could be a release of a video of Hillary feeding infants into a wood-chipper while cackling, and Hillary confirming it, and they'd still try to defend her somehow. They're like some sort of cult. The Democratic National Cult. Except, they're not big on democracy either, so it's one of those ironic names.
Providing facts and truth is now "interfering"? In what dystopian novel did I read something like that in... Oh, right, 1984.
Look, CNN, WaPo, HuffPo, CNBC, and 95% of the MSM already acts as an arm of the DNC. They do nothing but attack trump, praise Hillary, and work to spread stories designed to cover up her misdeeds and overall influence the election her way. The ENTIRE system is working to influence the election in her favor, and using lies and deceit to do it.
And you complain when a small handful of outlets attempt to counter the propaganda with TRUTH?
Take some time off. You need to reflect on your decisions.
They should have let him continue. It's not like he was contributing anything except masses of data for the cool-aid drinkers to misrepresent. And discrediting himself in the process. Now those cool-aid drinkers will have something unfair to point to.
On a side note, I'll point out that he's been dumping on Hillary with impunity, but as soon as he got into what the banks consider their private business someone gave Ecuador a call.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Correa believes precisely the opposite. He believes that a Trump presidency would be better for Latin america, but in the context that it would rally people in opposition to him to support leftist causes. He says that Clinton would be better for America and the world.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Assange has stated that if he had stuff to leak on Trump he would do that, too. But I guess Trump was a bit harder to hack.
erm.. apparently not... and the white hat that reported on it.. Trump is trying to have arrested!..LOL http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
Right. Because the one email linked in your article is this. Oh, that's oh so damning. The rest of your article is built around O'Keefe garbage. The guy who built his career on selective editing and deception.
Link to the email. Not a right wing blog, not O'Keefe garbage, the actual email.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Clearly you missed #risottogate.
Call your senator and demand an investigation!
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Ugh, same old same old.
They can interview him remotely like they interview a lot of other. They don't want to do that in this case, though.
I think the US media is already exposing everything about Trump. Wikileaks is only leveling the playing field
Not buying it, Spy Hunter, Wiki leaks has published information from banks, religions, universities, and political parties.
Let's see the RNC files published. That'll establish bipartisan credibility.
Or you can fumble through some more excuses like Trump dealt with the abortion question. Leave it to othes. Then cap it with a meaningless declaration that babies are being ripped from wombs. Because you want to distract us with fear.
If they have enough evidence to charge him with a crime, they can charge him. He doesn't need to be there. They didn't need to bring in Al Capone for an interview before they charged him. Leaders of drug cartels do not need to appear in the US to be charged here. And "international criminals" like Assange also do not need to be here if they are charged with something like distributing classified information. If there is evidence, then charge him with a crime. If there's not, leave him alone.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
And "international criminals" like Assange also do not need to be here if they are charged with something like distributing classified information. If there is evidence, then charge him with a crime. If there's not, leave him alone.
The 2 things that stick out to me is how they can charge an Australian citizen living abroad with violating a domestic US law, and how is it that the US based NYT was not guilty of the same basic charges in the Pentagon Papers leak publication as the ones they level at Assange.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
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.
Since when is exposing corruption interference? If someone was robbing a bank and you called the police you would be interfering with the robbery, not interfering with the operation of the bank. If WikiLeaks were making false allegations or doctoring the documents to make the Democrats look bad then I would agree that it would be interference. However, exposing the unsavory dealings of the DNC and Clinton campaign is not interference unless you believe they have a right to be corrupt with no possible repercussions.
I would love to see the current movers and shakers of the RNC power structure also taken out, but so far there is no public evidence that they are doing even 1/10th the shady stuff as the DNC and Hillary. Both sides are dishonest in that they are operating for the benefit of themselves and big business, as opposed to the regular people they claim to serve.
It is utterly ridiculous and stupid to say that you can't expose wrongdoing by Democrats unless you also expose wrongdoing by Republicans. It is even worse if you say it can't be done in election season.
Investigation? Risotto!
KILL THE MESSENGER!
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Wonder what did crooked Hilary promise Ecuador?
Wait, what am I saying - this is crooked Hilary! Obviously, Ecuador was threatened.
Do you remember george w bush?
Face it, america the world is watching you. Don't fuck it up. Clinton isn't that great, but trump is both stupider and more violent than george w bush ever was. It was extremely hard to get rid of that asshole. Trump may just end it all.
So your damn right people should ignore some stupid BS about some stupid clasified documents and someone stupid fucking insecure MAILSERVER! Do you know how many hosts on the internet are insecure? like fuck who cares!
TRUMP is going to nuke the fucking world man. You americans are like the densest fucks ever. This is exactly the bullshit that got george bush elected. People were apathetic about gore, i remember it, and then bush snuck right in. No one thought he actually had a shot either.
If it involves prevention of the literal end times, then yes. At least until the damn american election is over! I'd rather she was impeached after getting into office than trump gets anywhere near that kind of power!
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Assange has stated that if he had stuff to leak on Trump he would do that, too. But I guess Trump was a bit harder to hack.
Yeah that unpatched Exchange 2007 server must've been too hard for even the Pro's to get into...
Trump will be better for all the wall builders in Mexico. Think of the job creation!
Washington Post, which is the left Breitbart only boring, is doing its work to expose Trump. It's only fair that Wikileaks is exposing Hillary. Besides I don't think there's anything to bash Trump with except sexual stuff and I'm sure he didn't write emails about it.
Strange, when you speak of evil I think of Hillary laughing at Gaddhafi's being impaled on the stake by the mob to which she delivered him.
Corruption? Like this? http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
But I suppose there was no need for WL to leak the info given that it is already well documented in the MSM.
You're full of shit on this front. The "embassy" in London is little more than an apartment inside a typical building. Can you point me towards a source of Faraday cage suppliers for buildings? Are you aware the effectiveness is dependent on the size of the mesh?
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
It's smack-bang in the middle of fucking London.
There's wifi all over that place.
At absolute worst, just get a Pringles tin and make a cheap Yagi and you could pick up hundreds, if not thousands of networks. We're talking a couple of streets away from Soho and massive public museums.
And, yes, ubiquitous 4G in that area. If anything, you'll have more trouble with 4G as the airwaves will be overcrowded during working hours.
The whole thing's a farce to get him in the news again. This guy's in THE MOST CONNECTED PLACE IN BRITAIN.
You don't need to stand outside and offer your 4G to Wifi which will reach about an inch. THE 4G IS ALREADY THERE. And the mobile hotspot will be being swamped by the million-and-one other Wifi networks on 2.4GHz in that area.
Honestly, it's just pandering to media.
That's a response to something. What is it responding to?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
I already covered that: https://slashdot.org/submissio...
It's actually built off of corroboration with independent videos and the FEC data showing the woman on the Democratic payroll, getting money to be at those specific protests. You can, in fact, see an independent video of the woman lying to the cops.
You can say whatever nonsense you like, but there are independent sources that allow us to verify who paid her and what she did, so it would appear that you have failed to look at all the evidence if you think it's all based on O'Keefe's video.
So you might want to check your own facts next time.
"Right, because he can't be charged until he's interviewed."
BS. Anyone can be charged without an interview. Anyone intelligent person who thinks they're at risk to being charged shouldn't allow an interview in the first place.
Or does the 5th amendment not apply anymore?
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Wikileaks doesn't actually hack, they provide a platform for those who did to get the information out. If someone *had* hacked the Trump servers, tried to get it to Wikileaks, and nothing was coming out, they would have gone to the media and it would be all over the news.
But they haven't, because no one bothered to hack Trump.
That's an interesting question. After Obama won, there were campaigns in Latin America running (and winning) under the slogan "Si Se Puede", yes we can. So it is definitely true that an American president can influence the region without even trying (or knowing it).
My feeling is the opposite, though. Latin America has the kind of "strong man" government. For centuries, the leader has been a strong person, who can enforce his will. Chavez and Castro fit perfectly this role: the primary difference they hope to portray is that they are exercising their strength to help the people (rather than the rich and themselves). And actually, all the very popular presidents in Latin America that I can think of portrayed themselves as using their strength to help the common people.
So, will Trump be push people to the left, or to the right? I think we can agree that Trump will be perceived as a strong man (whether he actually is or not, that's irrelevant). So part of it will be how he pushes his wall deal, and immigration, and trade deals. Will people in latin america realize he is just trying to help Americans? Will they feel like he gave them a fair deal? Will they feel he respects them? Those are the kinds of questions to answer.
The other side of the coin is in Latin America itself. The wave seems to be going against leftism (that's such a stupid fuzzy term), with Argentina swinging right, and with Brazil swinging right, and Venezuela falling to pieces. A lot of the wave that rose during the Bush administration was pushed by Venezuela, supported with their oil money.
So in the end, while Trump would have some influence on the region if he became president, everything will be viewed from the lens of local politics, and the trends already happening in the region will be the primary determiners.
btw Ecuador has kind of an unusual relationship with the US because it uses US dollars. I was in El Salvador when they switched to dollars, and it completely drove the leftists insane.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Revealing past thoughts and actions during an election. Is that interference or accountability?
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
A vigilante is someone who takes the law into their own hands to persecute someone who hasn't been found guilty in court. That's the exact opposite of trying to help out someone who they feel is being persecuted without having been found guilty in court, which is what these wi-fi people are doing.
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but they're not saying a damned thing about Trump. And it's pretty fucking unlikely they don't have anything on Trump.
You're kidding right? This is Trump we're talking about.aboutleaks doesn't have anything on Trump because Trump himself is as leaky as a sieve. Scandals are coming up daily and he's self destructive as anything. There would be no point in going after him, it's like making fun of the intellectual ability of the mentally handicapped.
Also worth noting is Trump is just a dumb lucky business man. His major scandals are not interesting compared to those of the secretary of state.
So you're perfectly happy to make up whatever context suits you. Why am I not surprised? Here, how does this sound for you?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
Correa despises being on the dollar ;) It'll be interesting to see what happens there. I'm still actually rather shocked that he seems willing to step down from power.
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
FTFY: "There are *MILLIONS* of american men who do just that as often as they can"
I always assumed that limited his access meant limited access to a physical computer or smartphone, not severing the connection.
What? Dozens of Wifi points in the middle of a residential and commerce centre in the middle of London? And the 4G? And nobody else notices and the next-door-neighbours go about their evening with no Wifi without saying a word?
Don't think so, somehow.
You know that point, where the bollocks you made up drifts from "plausible but stupid" into "yeah, right, sure"?
They CANNOT officially charge him until he has been interviewed
And the Swedish prosecutors are legally prevented from traveling to the UK to interview him, or interviewing him remotely? That seems like an awful large hole in their system of due process.
Thanks for demonstrating your complete ignorance of Swedish due process.
Shit, they must have covered Swedish due process in school that one day I was sick.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Bingo. That's why the US had not charged Assange with a crime. There's no evidence that he committed one. It is possible for a foreigner to commit a crime against the US without setting foot on US soil, but there's no particular evidence for that.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Are you a lawyer practicing Swedish law, or are you just saying what someone else who isn't told you? Personally, I'm trusting the Swedes to figure that out.
The Fifth Amendment applies in the US, but that doesn't mean police and other authorities can't interview people. It means the people don't have to say anything, generally a good idea in a police or judicial system interview. It also doesn't apply to Australians in Ecuadorian embassies in the UK being charged by Swedish authorities. There are probably similar provisions in Swedish law, although they may not be as strong (I've read that English law against self-incrimination is the US law).
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I assume that you take whatever Michael Moore produces at face value, also.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
And Assange is SO believable and truthful, and would never tell a lie, let alone a ridiculous one about the US being after him (now that he's much less relevant and it would be significantly harder to get an extradition through) without providing any evidence.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
When America is great again, we'll have the craziest and most retarded people around! Number one!
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Bet you coundn't even tell me the utils used in the DNC hack... in which case, how would you know it could only be done by a state actor? Oh right, because your proven-liar of choice insists to you that it is so. Enjoy the ignorance that you have embraced.
But they haven't, because no one bothered to hack Trump.
Probably because is doing a better job of self destruction all on his own...
Completely agree. He could well have just as many skeletons - but in a world where an 11 year old hot mic conversation gets tons of media airplay, if anyone was aware of anything interesting in Trump emails, we would know it by now, Wikileaks or not. So the most reasonable explanation is that no one has attempted to leak the info, not bias by Wikileaks.
So the most reasonable explanation is that no one has attempted to leak the info, not bias by Wikileaks.
The bias is that Assange has admitted he is targeting Hillary. He should shut his mouth and remain an impartial voice.
The Obama administration and state department, along with their security firm pals, are the ones blaming Russia. It's pretty clear to me that they are merely paying lip service_orf Clinton rather than publicly accusing Russia. The leaking of NSA tools from 2013--which very likely did have Russian involvement--was, according to Snowden (on twitter), a response to these accusations.
I think it's hard to move away from the dollar because it provides real benefits: in El Salvador when they switched to the dollar, interest rates cut in ~half over night (on new loans).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."