This doesn't surprise me. Most of the fastest speeds I ever see on torrents are Scandinavian countries. No, I don't know why that is, or how Nokia ended up making most of the world's telephones. Maybe they have an extra Telecommunications chromosome.
That doesn't work. Unless people are embarrassed they won't lift a finger, they'll just ignore it. Besides, the atrocities at Abu Ghraib were committed with the full knowledge and consent of the US Government.
It happens in other fields, too. Try secretly reporting a security bug to Microsoft and see if they fix it. Compare to how long they take to fix published bugs.
As for telling journalists: It wasn't Julian Assange who released the cables, everything he released was redacted to avoid the problems you describe. People only got full access to the original documents when a journalist published the decryption key to Julian's "insurance file".
Me? I'm betting this guy is right. He'll be whisked away either as soon as he touches down in Sweden or after they finish "questioning" him (which will be a farce - they prosecution only has the girls' word that something bad happened, he's got all their next-morning blog entries about how happy they were to have had sex with him).
Yeah, because the US couldn't just ask the UK to extradite him. Makes perfect sense.
Oh, they asked... but given the amount of publicity surrounding the case the UK couldn't just hand him over - it would be illegal.
OTOH, Sweden can hand him over. Read the section titled "Temporary surrender - under the US-Sweden Extradition Treaty" on this page. It might be much easier to transfer him from Sweden.
"...in the case of a person who is being prosecuted or is serving a sentence in the territory of the requested State for a different offense, the requested State may:
b) temporarily surrender the person sought to the requesting State for the purpose of prosecution. "
i.e. Get him into Sweden for one offense, "temporarily"* transfer him to the USA for a different offense.
[*] I'm guessing it won't be very temporary - they've got people in Guantanamo just for wearing the wrong sort of watch.
would usually imply that he's more likely to be extradited from the UK than Sweden. Sweden is an open, liberal democracy, the UK would hand him over to the US in a heartbeat.
The next couple of weeks will let you know if you're right...
Why don't you save us all some effort and supply a simple citation?
Oh, wait, you can't. I'm guessing that's why you post A/C.
Me? I'll provide all the cites you want.
What they're trying to charge him with is sex by surprise. Nobody's quite sure what that is but we know the maximum penalty for it is a $715 fine.
This fine is why the whole Interpol warrant and extradition is a farce - it simply doesn't happen for a crime as minor as that (in fact it's against Interpol's charter to get involved with this - the crime is too minor and it only happened in a single country).
If the goal was indeed to get him to the US, it would be easier to extradite him from the UK due to the special extradition treaties in effect between the US and the UK.
You'd think so...but there's obviously something deeper going on that nobody knows about.
I guess we'll find out what it is in the next couple of weeks.
No he has not been charged with a crime yet, he is however a suspect fro 2 counts of rape
Um, no he isn't. Only the tabloid press has used the word "rape" (probably as part of a government organized campaign to ruin his credibility).
Rape victims rarely tweet about their experience and organize a party for their friends to meet the rapist so a charge of "rape" seems unlikely (although you never know...it wouldn't be any more absurd than the rest of this case).
My Android phone lasts a week with light use, 12 days if it's just in standby. I can drain it in a couple of hours if I turn everything on (eg. GPS navigation).
The worst culprit for draining the battery was the screen auto-rotate. You'd think they'd turn it off when it's in standby, but, nooooo....
I agree - random ISP lookups all day long and random , plausible emails to random names.
Back in the old days, when HTTP was just a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye, email programs used to randomly add trigger words (eg. 'bomb', 'nsa', 'plutonium') to all outgoing mail then automatically strip it off again at the other end.
I assume it was done as some sort of hacker joke but we should start doing it again. Any sort of government fishing expeditions through user traffic needs to be made completely futile.
Unfortunately most people send their mail via large corporate software so the chances of it happening are null.
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His sig says "Finland".
This doesn't surprise me. Most of the fastest speeds I ever see on torrents are Scandinavian countries. No, I don't know why that is, or how Nokia ended up making most of the world's telephones. Maybe they have an extra Telecommunications chromosome.
Yep, and it will stop the entire company from working when it happens.
Managers will start to think that individual PCs will prevent that...and we'll begin the circle of computing all over again. Just like the last time.
That doesn't work. Unless people are embarrassed they won't lift a finger, they'll just ignore it. Besides, the atrocities at Abu Ghraib were committed with the full knowledge and consent of the US Government.
It happens in other fields, too. Try secretly reporting a security bug to Microsoft and see if they fix it. Compare to how long they take to fix published bugs.
As for telling journalists: It wasn't Julian Assange who released the cables, everything he released was redacted to avoid the problems you describe. People only got full access to the original documents when a journalist published the decryption key to Julian's "insurance file".
Well...we'll know the truth in a couple of weeks.
Me? I'm betting this guy is right. He'll be whisked away either as soon as he touches down in Sweden or after they finish "questioning" him (which will be a farce - they prosecution only has the girls' word that something bad happened, he's got all their next-morning blog entries about how happy they were to have had sex with him).
Yeah, because the US couldn't just ask the UK to extradite him. Makes perfect sense.
Oh, they asked ... but given the amount of publicity surrounding the case the UK couldn't just hand him over - it would be illegal.
OTOH, Sweden can hand him over. Read the section titled "Temporary surrender - under the US-Sweden Extradition Treaty" on this page. It might be much easier to transfer him from Sweden.
"...in the case of a person who is being prosecuted or is serving a sentence in the territory of the requested State for a different offense, the requested State may:
b) temporarily surrender the person sought to the requesting State for the purpose of prosecution. "
i.e. Get him into Sweden for one offense, "temporarily"* transfer him to the USA for a different offense.
[*] I'm guessing it won't be very temporary - they've got people in Guantanamo just for wearing the wrong sort of watch.
Except you cannot always extradite someone who you have had extradited to your country. The first country normally adds caveats to prevent that
What will the UK do when Sweden breaks the agreement? Sue...?
And from this, we can learn the following valuable lessons:
The whole point is that he felt that governments covering up dirty deeds/murders, etc., is wrong.
He took a risk for truth and we should be supporting him.
Weak, but not zero. They weren't random, innocent little girls off the street. Both of them moved in diplomatic circles and mixed with US agents.
Both women attempted to stop him but he overpowered them.
Citation needed...
would usually imply that he's more likely to be extradited from the UK than Sweden. Sweden is an open, liberal democracy, the UK would hand him over to the US in a heartbeat.
The next couple of weeks will let you know if you're right...
He didn't "do a runner", he asked permission to leave and it was granted.
Why can't he answer questions from the UK? (as he's offered to do)
Why can't they even tell him what it is that they want to question him about...?
He's not accused of rape.
Why don't you save us all some effort and supply a simple citation?
Oh, wait, you can't. I'm guessing that's why you post A/C.
Me? I'll provide all the cites you want.
What they're trying to charge him with is sex by surprise. Nobody's quite sure what that is but we know the maximum penalty for it is a $715 fine.
This fine is why the whole Interpol warrant and extradition is a farce - it simply doesn't happen for a crime as minor as that (in fact it's against Interpol's charter to get involved with this - the crime is too minor and it only happened in a single country).
If the goal was indeed to get him to the US, it would be easier to extradite him from the UK due to the special extradition treaties in effect between the US and the UK.
You'd think so...but there's obviously something deeper going on that nobody knows about.
I guess we'll find out what it is in the next couple of weeks.
So...why can't he answer the questions from the UK - as he's offered to do since the very beginning?
Extradition is for serious crimes, not "questioning".
I don't see what he and his attorneys hoped to gain from fighting the extradition.
We all do know that the extradition is a crock of poo, the accusations are obviously trumped-up, and that there's something else going on.
Whatever it it is, it's probably the US government behind it's probably very bad for him. Anybody with any sense would fight it.
No he has not been charged with a crime yet, he is however a suspect fro 2 counts of rape
Um, no he isn't. Only the tabloid press has used the word "rape" (probably as part of a government organized campaign to ruin his credibility).
Rape victims rarely tweet about their experience and organize a party for their friends to meet the rapist so a charge of "rape" seems unlikely (although you never know...it wouldn't be any more absurd than the rest of this case).
Sure, people get into fights over trucks but the Ford vs, Chevy debate isn't rotting our society from the inside out.
Call me when an Atheist is president of the USA and they've taken the "in god we trust" thing off the money.
Ummm....maybe I don't use it enough by my Samsung Galaxy normally lasts me a week. It can do 13 days if it's just sat there on standby,
My Android phone lasts a week with light use, 12 days if it's just in standby. I can drain it in a couple of hours if I turn everything on (eg. GPS navigation).
The worst culprit for draining the battery was the screen auto-rotate. You'd think they'd turn it off when it's in standby, but, nooooo....
Religion isn't harmless.
Repeat: Religion is NOT harmless.
It's not like collecting stamps or arguing Ford vs. Chevy.
Religion is used in Government decision making and education.
Your fatal mistake is to assume that everyone having doubts about evolution is a hardboiled creationist.
Your fatal mistake is not understanding Set Theory.
Satan planted all the fossils and make it look like the Earth was old just to trap the unenlightened.
I agree - random ISP lookups all day long and random , plausible emails to random names.
Back in the old days, when HTTP was just a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye, email programs used to randomly add trigger words (eg. 'bomb', 'nsa', 'plutonium') to all outgoing mail then automatically strip it off again at the other end.
I assume it was done as some sort of hacker joke but we should start doing it again. Any sort of government fishing expeditions through user traffic needs to be made completely futile.
Unfortunately most people send their mail via large corporate software so the chances of it happening are null.