Multiple sources reporting:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37680411
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/10/17/wikileaks-says-assanges-internet-link-was-severed-by-state-party.html
http://time.com/4532984/wikileaks-julian-assange-theories/
Wikileaks has announced that Julian Assange's internet access had been intentionally severed by a state actor. I would assume this means they disrupted a VPN connection he had rather than just cutting all internet access to the Ecuadorian Embassy, but again details are limited.
The announcement of disruption was also preceded by multiple strange tweets of random numbers (likely crypto keys) that appear to be part of a dead man system activated by the disruption.
takyon: The full tweet states "Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans." Wikileaks recently released Part 9 of the Podesta Emails. Also at CNET and Ars Technica.
Update: Wikileaks says: "We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speechs."
Perhaps the embassy's perennial guest has finally overstayed his welcome?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @08:13PM
This whole mysterious "state level actor" thing doesn't help either. The embassy he was in cut him off, why didn't he just say that? Instead he went with a deliberately ominous message implying the NSA got up in his internetz, a message that he must of known would be blowback once the actual state was named. Its like he's peppermint patty and we are all charlie brown. How many times does he think can yank that ball away before everybody just wanders off to watch a real football game?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @08:32PM
Actually, it was Lucy but, whatever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @08:57PM
> Actually, it was Lucy but, whatever.
Not in Bizarroworld Peanuts!
But thanks, you are right, I just brainfarted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @01:03AM
In one instance it was Violet. (This was actually the very first time the ball was pulled away from Charlie Brown, in the early days of the strip.)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 17 2016, @08:44PM
Ominous messages are a Wikileaks forte, that's for sure. They have just the right (or wrong) balance of attention whoring and fulfillment.
It doesn't make sense for them to "know" (since this is all still unconfirmed) that a "state party" cut it off without knowing it was Ecuador. The first tweet comes off as a hype-y attempt to sound cool and mysterious, especially with the "We have activated the appropriate contingency plans" bit. Maybe someone else here can try to explain how they could be sure it was a state party without being sure it was Ecuador.
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