The second Swedish prosecutor, the one who revived the charges, is a US CIA asset. You can verify this yourself. He represented the US CIA for the Swedish Extraordinary Rendition case.
The second prosecutor, the one who re-instated the charges, is a CIA asset. He's the same lawyer who represented the US CIA for the Swedish Extraordinary Rendition charges.
Why is Sweden easier to influence than the UK?
Why is Sweden more likely to extradite to the US?
Sweden cooperated with the Extraordinary Rendition program. The Swedish prosecutor who charged Assange is a CIA asset, in that he also represented the CIA for Swedish Extraordinary Rendition cases.
Why does the US want him in Sweden given that:
1. there is clear evidence of the UK being complicit to some extent in extraordinary rendition cases to the US, yet - to my knowledge - no evidence of Sweden being involved.
2. the US has a much deeper intelligence and defence relationship with the UK than Sweden
3. the Swedish legal system is as, if not more, transparent and subject to due process and appeal as the UK one.
Have you ever been to Sweden or the UK? I have.
See above. Sweden has traditionally had a good working relationship with the US CIA. I don't know why they chose Sweden over the UK for this particular dirty work. I've also been to both countries.
Parent exactly nailed it. Shale gas is a scam. The 'hundreds of years of supply' meme is completely false, and is part of a paid social networking and general marketing campaign put on by a few US Fracking companies. Shale gas has poor net energy, making it not worthwhile from an energy source perspective, AND has the bonus of permanently poisoning the local water supply.
CPU might choose to retract the statement, but it's still valid. If you know much about much about how government Intelligence Agencies do their thing, you will know that false flag deception operations are routine. Anonymous was originally created circa 2005 by Hacktivismo, a branch of the cDc, under the tutelage of the Ninja Strike Force Dojo, but now anyon[sic] can correctly claim to be Anonymous.
I was wondering whether someone was going to call the poster out for being an astroturfing sock puppet. While it may, or may not, be the case in this particular example, it shows that people are becoming more aware of the problem. This is a good thing.
I would like to point out that the marketing firms that provide astroturf/sockpuppet service have grown more sophisticated that has our awareness of the problem. For example, a competent sock-puppeteer will create the accounts YEARS in advance and fill them with occasional post so they look like real accounts. They now routinely create entire online ecosystems, including false debates & discussions, where they play multiple the critical roles with different accounts. Watch for this!
We wanted our VOIP services to be free of CALEA backdoors, so we based ourselves in Luxembourg, where they do not have such regulations, and are not likely to have them anytime soon.
Nope, just telling the truth as I understand it, in a technically correct and factually accurate way. I'm well aware that my story sounds tinfoil hat to the uninformed. Five Eyes have done a good job keeping it quiet, just as US/UK did a good job keeping Ultra quiet. People initially thought David Kahn was being tinfoil hat when he disclosed The Ultra Secret in 1974. This makes it no less true and correct.
If you research this topic you will discover that the more you learn about it the more plausible my statements are. Adiabatic Topological Quantum Computing is currently a hot cutting edge topic, but hard to research academically because the people with access to the best platforms are under NDA and don't publish. This author believes that Professor Stuart Kauffman is overdue for a Nobel Prize, but knows he will never receive one because of the classified nature of the science. Another contributor to this 'secret science' project was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for an ancillary discovery he made while engaged in this project, and now runs an Institute for Quantum Computing Research. David Deutch, who also works at an institute for Quantum Computing, was probably also a contributor, but I don't know that for certain.
Example #1: In the 1990s the English speaking countries AUSCANNZUKUS sponsored a secret science project that discovered and developed Topological Quantum Neural Network technology (would provide a Wikipedia link, but the topic is censored there). They used it to build a Magic Decoder Box, but the technology had much more interesting uses than reading other peoples' mail. It also lead indirectly to some major mathematical and scientific breakthroughs. e.g. The mathematical breakthrough that allowed for rapid sequencing of 'shattered' DNA in the late 90s, some of the advanced AI now in evidence from large corporations, et cetera. However, because the original Magic Decoder Box project was classified none of this science has been publicly shared. Anyone participating in Corporate or Government development using this technology must sign an ironclad NDA of the direst sort. This author is one of the few people who knows a lot about this 'censored science', yet who has never signed an NDA.
This author has personally seen an example of scientific censorship at work: find a rare early First Edition of Dr. Stuart Kauffman's 1996 book At Home in the Universe, and compare it chapter-by-chapter with a later First Edition. One chapter has been excised, and that chapter explicitly discusses Quantum Neural Networks. This author suspects he snuck it past the censors, then someone noticed and made him remove it for all later printings, while still calling it a First Edition. The 'censored' version was removed from sale, but there are still a few copies out there. The chapter in question seems odd and out of place, until one realizes that it is trying to deliver a hidden message from a scientist who abhors censoring science, yet had no choice. This author believes that there were once legitimate National Security reasons for keeping this science secret, but believes those reasons are no longer valid. Skeptical readers should note that The Ultra Secret, a strikingly similar case, remained classified for 35 years.
I hope all readers of Slashdot are already aware of the many 'boutique' consulting firms exist that provide this kind of service. For a fee, they will sell you anything from a single one-topic sock puppet appearance, to an entire social media campaign. I am personally familiar with organizations that provide this service. They definitely operate on Slashdot, and I have been seeing more and more probable sockpuppet appearances here. I strongly encourage all readers to increase personal awareness of this phenomenon. New media, and the shenanigans it makes possible, now requires a new type of media awareness, if one wishes to not be fooled and manipulated.
In addition to the valid points you raise, there's also the problem that the NSA has had, since about 1996, the ability to crack public key cryptography via quantum computation. The evidence is not public, and I'm sure the NSA will continue to obfuscate for decades to come, but this skeptical author is now completely convinced that Five Eyes (AU CA NZ US UK) got production QC capability circa 1996. This author knows the technical and scientific details of how this was done, the implementation approach, and quite a bit about how the system works. It was done by first generating a topological quantum neural network (see my previous posts), then training the NN to implement Shor's algorithm. Frankly, the crypto-cracking Shor's algorithm system was a bit of a hack and, once understood, is not really very interesting. The juicy bits are the more recent use of this TQNN, via AQC, for other AI-related applications. This author, who is a security professional and software engineer, got hold of this info through a combination of fortuitous leaks and years of painstaking research, starting with a solid background in quantum Physics. Given how many times I've repeated this information on Slashdot, I'm a bit surprised no one has yet asked any smart questions.
This pro-Obama enthusiast, who skillfully distorts the truth, and uses press releases and official dodges adroitly, smells like a sock puppet. I don't care which candidate the poster is currently supporting, the METHOD smells like sock puppet.
This has nothing to do with Left/Right politics, and everything to do with Authority/Liberty politics. You're arguing about the wrong political axis. Here's a quiz and chart that explains this.
My grandfather was a senior executive at a large electronics company doing business in Saudi Arabia. He faced this precise dilemma. He opted for option #1, lost his company a big contract, and was then moved to a more-engineering and less-management position. His replacement presumably paid the bribe (baksheesh), given that his replacement became a vice president.
In Saudi culture baksheesh is NORMAL and EXPECTED. They think the Americans are weird immoral for not doing things that way.
Your statement is true only if you exchange keys offline. Does anyone still do that? For key exchange we mostly use public key cryptography, which is vulnerable to several different sorts of attacks (e.g. Shor's Alg. on a QC, non-random seeding, version-specific implementation flaws). If the key exchange is insecure, it matters not how many bits are in the key. The article's discussion of cryptography was partly true and partly disinformation being fed to the reporters.
Most are unaware of it, but the social tension evidenced in this conversation comes from changing living conditions. The world is full. Further economic growth is neither possible nor desirable.
A growing economic pie allowed large disparity in income. A shrinking economic pie directs people's attention back to large income disparities.
Most OWS and Tea Party (they may distrust and fear each other, but they have more in common than either will admit) real grassroots sympathizers & supporters know there's something going on that they don't like, but they're not sure what to do about it. Last year a wave of popular revolutions swept the Arab world, driven by the same feeling. Liberals and Conservatives use different words to describe seemingly different things, but the origin of their discontent comes from the end of growth. This impending paradigm shift is at the origin of the social conflict played out on this page.
It is foolish of people to focus on redistributing wealth, scapegoat, bicker, or wage war, when the entire edifice is in peril. Yet it is in our nature to behave so in the face of a bottleneck predicament. Know Thyself
Also the Swedish prosecutor who re-instated the charges, and who has been pushing them ever since, is a US CIA asset. In fact, he's the same attorney who defended the CIA during the "Extraordinary Rendition" torture trials in Sweden. He has a few other items in his CV and history which indicate a cozy relationship with the CIA.
All practical methods for voting are vulnerable to fraud. Some methods, like paper ballots, provide better resistance to systemic fraud, others provide better resistance to small-scale fraud. Systemic fraud is the greater risk, by a huge margin. Vote by mail is vulnerable to manipulation on a household level, but is very hard to systemically defraud. For example, a household tyrant might steel the vote of other household members and intimidate them into silence, but this same villain would have a hard time stealing the votes of neighboring households. With electronic voting, whomever hires the best hackers can steal the election.
I've done most of my voting in the US State of Oregon. In Oregon all voting is done by mail. All registered voters receive a ballot with an anonymity envelope. You fill out the ballot, put your ballot in the anonymity envelope, put that in the envelope with your name on it, sign the outer ballot, and send it off in the mail. All the paper ballots are there for future physical counting, and you can check whether your vote was received. There is no election day voting, except to drop your last-minute ballot off at the Post Office before polls close. Voting is done by mail days or weeks in advance. Vote-by-mail is a secure, effective, and practical voting method, and is virtually immune to the sorts of systemic fraud that plague electronic voting.
I encourage other Slashdot readers to support vote by mail in their locale.
The Supremacy clause is currently in vogue with Constitutional scholars and Federalists. These same people tend to neglect the 10th Amendment since it was created as a check on Federal power.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.[1] The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or the people.
DeathElk, the time has come to reveal our presence to the Earthlings. Our species has been observing humans for some years. While our species should have risen above the threatening sounds you make, I well understand your sentiment. Our time observing humans is now up, we are leaving.
I also watched both videos. The manipulation of the video scaled down the time and posted captions, it did not substantively alter the story told. The longer, non-edited video is MUCH harder to follow, and requires a larger time investment to understand. This is a journalistic judgement call. Also, they published BOTH versions of the video, so that anyone who did not trust the edited version, and wished to see the original evidence, could do so. I call 'troll' on you! Are you a sock puppet?
Here is an interview with the soldier in question, Ethan McCord. I continue to be amazed at the bad journalism and outright lies surrounding this incident. There has been an active disinformation campaign surrounding this entire issue, of which Fox News is only the most blatant participant.
The whole point of the transaction was that The Guardian was to get full access to the non-redacted cables, but was not going to publish them. The Guardian insisted on this. Publishing the password to encrypted sensitive information is tantamount to publishing the sensitive information. If there is blame for publishing the clear text of the cables it mostly falls on The Guardian, but the story was spun differently. The Guardian reporters in question can achieve plausible deniability only by claiming ignorance and stupidity.
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The second Swedish prosecutor, the one who revived the charges, is a US CIA asset. You can verify this yourself. He represented the US CIA for the Swedish Extraordinary Rendition case.
The second prosecutor, the one who re-instated the charges, is a CIA asset. He's the same lawyer who represented the US CIA for the Swedish Extraordinary Rendition charges.
Why is Sweden easier to influence than the UK? Why is Sweden more likely to extradite to the US?
Sweden cooperated with the Extraordinary Rendition program. The Swedish prosecutor who charged Assange is a CIA asset, in that he also represented the CIA for Swedish Extraordinary Rendition cases.
Why does the US want him in Sweden given that: 1. there is clear evidence of the UK being complicit to some extent in extraordinary rendition cases to the US, yet - to my knowledge - no evidence of Sweden being involved. 2. the US has a much deeper intelligence and defence relationship with the UK than Sweden 3. the Swedish legal system is as, if not more, transparent and subject to due process and appeal as the UK one.
Have you ever been to Sweden or the UK? I have.
See above. Sweden has traditionally had a good working relationship with the US CIA. I don't know why they chose Sweden over the UK for this particular dirty work. I've also been to both countries.
Parent exactly nailed it. Shale gas is a scam. The 'hundreds of years of supply' meme is completely false, and is part of a paid social networking and general marketing campaign put on by a few US Fracking companies. Shale gas has poor net energy, making it not worthwhile from an energy source perspective, AND has the bonus of permanently poisoning the local water supply.
CPU might choose to retract the statement, but it's still valid. If you know much about much about how government Intelligence Agencies do their thing, you will know that false flag deception operations are routine. Anonymous was originally created circa 2005 by Hacktivismo, a branch of the cDc, under the tutelage of the Ninja Strike Force Dojo, but now anyon[sic] can correctly claim to be Anonymous.
I was wondering whether someone was going to call the poster out for being an astroturfing sock puppet. While it may, or may not, be the case in this particular example, it shows that people are becoming more aware of the problem. This is a good thing.
I would like to point out that the marketing firms that provide astroturf/sockpuppet service have grown more sophisticated that has our awareness of the problem. For example, a competent sock-puppeteer will create the accounts YEARS in advance and fill them with occasional post so they look like real accounts. They now routinely create entire online ecosystems, including false debates & discussions, where they play multiple the critical roles with different accounts. Watch for this!
We wanted our VOIP services to be free of CALEA backdoors, so we based ourselves in Luxembourg, where they do not have such regulations, and are not likely to have them anytime soon.
Nope, just telling the truth as I understand it, in a technically correct and factually accurate way. I'm well aware that my story sounds tinfoil hat to the uninformed. Five Eyes have done a good job keeping it quiet, just as US/UK did a good job keeping Ultra quiet. People initially thought David Kahn was being tinfoil hat when he disclosed The Ultra Secret in 1974. This makes it no less true and correct.
If you research this topic you will discover that the more you learn about it the more plausible my statements are. Adiabatic Topological Quantum Computing is currently a hot cutting edge topic, but hard to research academically because the people with access to the best platforms are under NDA and don't publish. This author believes that Professor Stuart Kauffman is overdue for a Nobel Prize, but knows he will never receive one because of the classified nature of the science. Another contributor to this 'secret science' project was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for an ancillary discovery he made while engaged in this project, and now runs an Institute for Quantum Computing Research. David Deutch, who also works at an institute for Quantum Computing, was probably also a contributor, but I don't know that for certain.
Example #1: In the 1990s the English speaking countries AUSCANNZUKUS sponsored a secret science project that discovered and developed Topological Quantum Neural Network technology (would provide a Wikipedia link, but the topic is censored there). They used it to build a Magic Decoder Box, but the technology had much more interesting uses than reading other peoples' mail. It also lead indirectly to some major mathematical and scientific breakthroughs. e.g. The mathematical breakthrough that allowed for rapid sequencing of 'shattered' DNA in the late 90s, some of the advanced AI now in evidence from large corporations, et cetera. However, because the original Magic Decoder Box project was classified none of this science has been publicly shared. Anyone participating in Corporate or Government development using this technology must sign an ironclad NDA of the direst sort. This author is one of the few people who knows a lot about this 'censored science', yet who has never signed an NDA.
This author has personally seen an example of scientific censorship at work: find a rare early First Edition of Dr. Stuart Kauffman's 1996 book At Home in the Universe , and compare it chapter-by-chapter with a later First Edition. One chapter has been excised, and that chapter explicitly discusses Quantum Neural Networks. This author suspects he snuck it past the censors, then someone noticed and made him remove it for all later printings, while still calling it a First Edition. The 'censored' version was removed from sale, but there are still a few copies out there. The chapter in question seems odd and out of place, until one realizes that it is trying to deliver a hidden message from a scientist who abhors censoring science, yet had no choice. This author believes that there were once legitimate National Security reasons for keeping this science secret, but believes those reasons are no longer valid. Skeptical readers should note that The Ultra Secret, a strikingly similar case, remained classified for 35 years.
I hope all readers of Slashdot are already aware of the many 'boutique' consulting firms exist that provide this kind of service. For a fee, they will sell you anything from a single one-topic sock puppet appearance, to an entire social media campaign. I am personally familiar with organizations that provide this service. They definitely operate on Slashdot, and I have been seeing more and more probable sockpuppet appearances here. I strongly encourage all readers to increase personal awareness of this phenomenon. New media, and the shenanigans it makes possible, now requires a new type of media awareness, if one wishes to not be fooled and manipulated.
In addition to the valid points you raise, there's also the problem that the NSA has had, since about 1996, the ability to crack public key cryptography via quantum computation. The evidence is not public, and I'm sure the NSA will continue to obfuscate for decades to come, but this skeptical author is now completely convinced that Five Eyes (AU CA NZ US UK) got production QC capability circa 1996. This author knows the technical and scientific details of how this was done, the implementation approach, and quite a bit about how the system works. It was done by first generating a topological quantum neural network (see my previous posts), then training the NN to implement Shor's algorithm. Frankly, the crypto-cracking Shor's algorithm system was a bit of a hack and, once understood, is not really very interesting. The juicy bits are the more recent use of this TQNN, via AQC, for other AI-related applications. This author, who is a security professional and software engineer, got hold of this info through a combination of fortuitous leaks and years of painstaking research, starting with a solid background in quantum Physics. Given how many times I've repeated this information on Slashdot, I'm a bit surprised no one has yet asked any smart questions.
This pro-Obama enthusiast, who skillfully distorts the truth, and uses press releases and official dodges adroitly, smells like a sock puppet. I don't care which candidate the poster is currently supporting, the METHOD smells like sock puppet.
This has nothing to do with Left/Right politics, and everything to do with Authority/Liberty politics. You're arguing about the wrong political axis. Here's a quiz and chart that explains this.
My grandfather was a senior executive at a large electronics company doing business in Saudi Arabia. He faced this precise dilemma. He opted for option #1, lost his company a big contract, and was then moved to a more-engineering and less-management position. His replacement presumably paid the bribe (baksheesh), given that his replacement became a vice president.
In Saudi culture baksheesh is NORMAL and EXPECTED. They think the Americans are weird immoral for not doing things that way.
Your statement is true only if you exchange keys offline. Does anyone still do that? For key exchange we mostly use public key cryptography, which is vulnerable to several different sorts of attacks (e.g. Shor's Alg. on a QC, non-random seeding, version-specific implementation flaws). If the key exchange is insecure, it matters not how many bits are in the key. The article's discussion of cryptography was partly true and partly disinformation being fed to the reporters.
Most are unaware of it, but the social tension evidenced in this conversation comes from changing living conditions. The world is full. Further economic growth is neither possible nor desirable.
A growing economic pie allowed large disparity in income. A shrinking economic pie directs people's attention back to large income disparities.
Most OWS and Tea Party (they may distrust and fear each other, but they have more in common than either will admit) real grassroots sympathizers & supporters know there's something going on that they don't like, but they're not sure what to do about it. Last year a wave of popular revolutions swept the Arab world, driven by the same feeling. Liberals and Conservatives use different words to describe seemingly different things, but the origin of their discontent comes from the end of growth. This impending paradigm shift is at the origin of the social conflict played out on this page.
It is foolish of people to focus on redistributing wealth, scapegoat, bicker, or wage war, when the entire edifice is in peril. Yet it is in our nature to behave so in the face of a bottleneck predicament. Know Thyself
I call AC sock puppet on you.
Wikipedia definition of Agent Provacateur
I think Slashdot needs a new tag, something to demarcate probable sock puppet post. Extra points for the name and address of the real poster.
Also the Swedish prosecutor who re-instated the charges, and who has been pushing them ever since, is a US CIA asset. In fact, he's the same attorney who defended the CIA during the "Extraordinary Rendition" torture trials in Sweden. He has a few other items in his CV and history which indicate a cozy relationship with the CIA.
All practical methods for voting are vulnerable to fraud. Some methods, like paper ballots, provide better resistance to systemic fraud, others provide better resistance to small-scale fraud. Systemic fraud is the greater risk, by a huge margin. Vote by mail is vulnerable to manipulation on a household level, but is very hard to systemically defraud. For example, a household tyrant might steel the vote of other household members and intimidate them into silence, but this same villain would have a hard time stealing the votes of neighboring households. With electronic voting, whomever hires the best hackers can steal the election.
I've done most of my voting in the US State of Oregon. In Oregon all voting is done by mail. All registered voters receive a ballot with an anonymity envelope. You fill out the ballot, put your ballot in the anonymity envelope, put that in the envelope with your name on it, sign the outer ballot, and send it off in the mail. All the paper ballots are there for future physical counting, and you can check whether your vote was received. There is no election day voting, except to drop your last-minute ballot off at the Post Office before polls close. Voting is done by mail days or weeks in advance. Vote-by-mail is a secure, effective, and practical voting method, and is virtually immune to the sorts of systemic fraud that plague electronic voting.
I encourage other Slashdot readers to support vote by mail in their locale.
The Supremacy clause is currently in vogue with Constitutional scholars and Federalists. These same people tend to neglect the 10th Amendment since it was created as a check on Federal power.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.[1] The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution's principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or the people.
DeathElk, the time has come to reveal our presence to the Earthlings. Our species has been observing humans for some years. While our species should have risen above the threatening sounds you make, I well understand your sentiment. Our time observing humans is now up, we are leaving.
Humans, here is the report we sent to our home system about your species. Your your own sake, humans, I hope you are able to learn your true nature.
I also watched both videos. The manipulation of the video scaled down the time and posted captions, it did not substantively alter the story told. The longer, non-edited video is MUCH harder to follow, and requires a larger time investment to understand. This is a journalistic judgement call. Also, they published BOTH versions of the video, so that anyone who did not trust the edited version, and wished to see the original evidence, could do so. I call 'troll' on you! Are you a sock puppet?
Here is an interview with the soldier in question, Ethan McCord. I continue to be amazed at the bad journalism and outright lies surrounding this incident. There has been an active disinformation campaign surrounding this entire issue, of which Fox News is only the most blatant participant.
The whole point of the transaction was that The Guardian was to get full access to the non-redacted cables, but was not going to publish them. The Guardian insisted on this. Publishing the password to encrypted sensitive information is tantamount to publishing the sensitive information. If there is blame for publishing the clear text of the cables it mostly falls on The Guardian, but the story was spun differently. The Guardian reporters in question can achieve plausible deniability only by claiming ignorance and stupidity.
Agreed, that never happened. Poster was repeating a Fox News falsehood.