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Ecuador Jails Swedish Programmer Over Alleged Ties To WikiLeaks (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
A judge in Ecuador has jailed a Swedish software developer whom authorities believe is a key member of WikiLeaks and close to Julian Assange, while prosecutors investigate charging him with hacking as part of an alleged plot to "destabilise" the country's government. Ola Bini, 36, was ordered to held in preventive detention on Saturday pending possible cyber-attack charges and his bank accounts were frozen. Prosecutors were examining dozens of hard drives and other material he had in his possession, according to local media reports...
On Thursday, Ecuador's interior minister, Maria Paula Romo, said they had identified a "key member of WikiLeaks" who was "close to Mr Julian Assange". Secret visitors' logs seen by the Guardian show that Bini was one of Assange's many visitors in Ecuador's embassy in Knightsbridge, west London.... Speaking to local media on Thursday, Romo said Ecuador was at risk of cyber attack, hinting Wikileaks could retaliate for the termination of Assange's asylum. She added the government did not want the country "to turn into an international [cyber] piracy centre"...
Last week, the government of president Lenin Moreno, 66, accused WikiLeaks of being involved in a campaign implicating Moreno and his family in corruption. Moreno, who has long expressed his unhappiness over Assange's asylum status, complained that "photos of my bedroom, what I eat and how my wife and daughters and friends dance" had been circulating on social media.
On Thursday, Ecuador's interior minister, Maria Paula Romo, said they had identified a "key member of WikiLeaks" who was "close to Mr Julian Assange". Secret visitors' logs seen by the Guardian show that Bini was one of Assange's many visitors in Ecuador's embassy in Knightsbridge, west London.... Speaking to local media on Thursday, Romo said Ecuador was at risk of cyber attack, hinting Wikileaks could retaliate for the termination of Assange's asylum. She added the government did not want the country "to turn into an international [cyber] piracy centre"...
Last week, the government of president Lenin Moreno, 66, accused WikiLeaks of being involved in a campaign implicating Moreno and his family in corruption. Moreno, who has long expressed his unhappiness over Assange's asylum status, complained that "photos of my bedroom, what I eat and how my wife and daughters and friends dance" had been circulating on social media.
Boy, when Ecuador is bought, they sure go all in! The dollar really does go a long way there... And $4.2 of them even longer!
Tortured to give up dirt on Orange Man.
...Moreno himself. Isn't it obvious?
And how did they obtain these secret visitor logs ?
They must be teh haxors !!! (surely not a leak)
The guardian used to be a reputable media outlet, now they collaborate with sources hostile to society to disseminate propaganda.
Purge all the spies.
Or something like '..., whom authorities believe to be...'.
Not a coincidence, I think. One reason that Ecuador revoked Assange's asylum was that he was accused of leaking hacked information about Ecuadorian politicians.
A commentor on a different blog (that I can't find ATM) stated that he knew from inside knowledge that Julian has a "dead-man's switch" to be triggered if he's ever arrested, with damaging information on Ecuador.
He also stated that the recent arrest definitely triggered the switch, and we should expect some interesting wikileaks drops in the next week or so.
(Wikileaks takes care to verify it's information, which usually takes a couple of days. For example, it verifies the encryption signatures of E-mails. Also, it scans and removes information that might get someone killed(*)).
Ecuador is in a panic right now, expecting to be fatally hacked. This might be, and the character assassination might be, damage control right before getting pwned.
Take this with a grain of salt, but it's not unreasonable to wait a week and see if Julian cleaned up and with a shave talks reasonable at a press conference, or if Ecuador is exposed for doing some nasty shit.
(*) Note that the "people were killed" thing from the "collateral murder" drop was done by accident by a Guardian reporter, not Wiklileaks. Also, it was just John McCain spouting off crap about something he didn't like.
Next up, women who formerly fucked Ola Bini now regret their decision and claim he retroactively raped them. Also, underage girls claim he raped them too. And the gov will find child porn on every hard drive they inspect... and there's no evidence someone like NSA planted it there.
Or some such crap. Anything to dehumanize a target of political suppression. The political stage is just a Clown World at this point. We should all just hold a vote of no confidence in all governments, fire everyone and hire a new batch of mossad compromised pedophiles. Can't really be worse than the current crop.
Yeah, can't stay at the evil puppet state of the evil US regime ... let's stay at the origin: The evil US regime!
The reality distortion field (propaganda) is much stronger at the source!
I can't say I am in any sort of panic right now. And what do you mean "fatally hacked"? You can only fatally hack an android or at least someone with a pacemaker...
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Here's a link for you.
The phenomenon of Nordic political terrorism and related charges is born. Turn back the clocks, we are going all Viking here!!!
It's clear that the country most hostile to exposing journalism and press freedom is good old America itself who always tauts its "freedom and democracy". And now the corrupt psychopaths and war criminals are going after anyone they can to send the message: don't talk about our war crimes, or we put you in prison for life.
What a dishonest piece of shit country America has turned into.
It seems Assange thought it was smart to interfere in Ecuadors election, even after being warned not to interfere in foreign elections! That was the final straw for them.
"Ecuador’s government believes WikiLeaks spread leaked documents, known as the INA Papers, which allege Moreno and his family had corruptly benefited from offshore companies when he was a United Nations special envoy on disability in Europe. Moreno denies any wrongdoing."
You might want to see what he was up to in the US elections, including passing hacked passwords to Trump Jr to be redistributed and offering Wikileaks as a propaganda outlet to receive selective papers presented as 'leaks'.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/
“Hey Don. We have an unusual idea,” WikiLeaks wrote on October 21, 2016. “Leak us one or more of your father’s tax returns.” WikiLeaks then laid out three reasons why this would benefit both the Trumps and WikiLeaks. One, The New York Times had already published a fragment of Trump’s tax returns on October 1; two, the rest could come out any time “through the most biased source (e.g. NYT/MSNBC).”
It is the third reason, though, WikiLeaks wrote, that “is the real kicker.” “If we publish them it will dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality,” WikiLeaks explained. “That means that the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing on Clinton will have much higher impact, because it won’t be perceived as coming from a ‘pro-Trump’ ‘pro-Russia’ source.”
"WikiLeaks didn’t write again until Election Day, November 8, 2016. “Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed [sic] and spends time CHALLENGING the media and other types of rigging that occurred—as he has implied that he might do,”
And then there was the requested pay back,
“Hi Don. Hope you’re doing well!” WikiLeaks wrote on December 16 to Trump Jr., who was by then the son of the president-elect. “In relation to Mr. Assange: Obama/Clinton placed pressure on Sweden, UK and Australia (his home country) to illicitly go after Mr. Assange. It would be real easy and helpful for your dad to suggest that Australia appoint Assange ambassador to [Washington,] DC.”
And there's the Russian connection again:
"Bini paid a three-hour visit to Assange, leaving around 9pm in June 2016, just a week after the whistleblower received visits from RT’s London bureau chief, Nikolay Bogachikhin, who is Russian, and one of its presenters, Afshin Rattansi, a British citizen."
Yeh, I forgot his paid RT propaganda programs.
Geez, he was the Trump/Russian intelligence conduit, and expected to get the Australian Diplomats jobs as reward, so he could go free. I'm guessing a Trump pardon will head his way.
Cui bono.
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