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Julian Assange's Internet Access "Cut" by Ecuador

posted by martyb on Monday October 17 2016, @07:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the where's-the-nearest-Starbucks? dept.

captain_nifty writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Monday October 17 2016, @09:45PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday October 17 2016, @09:45PM (#415435) Homepage Journal

    But Wikileaks has already released Part 10 [t.co] of the Podesta emails, so this hasn't slowed these guys down at all.

    Who knows? But it seems like this is another publicity stunt (like Wikileaks offering a reward to find Seth Rich's killer) to try and stay on the 24/7 news cycle radar.

    I imagine we'll find out later that the Ecuadorians were doing maintenance or some moron with a backhoe cut their links.

    Regardless, we have to pillory Clinton over this, because it's obviously her fault!

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  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Monday October 17 2016, @10:15PM

    by Francis (5544) on Monday October 17 2016, @10:15PM (#415443)

    I'm not sure why anybody would assume that he has the only copies of the materials that Wikileaks reviews for publication. I'm also not sure why anybody would assume that he's the only person doing anything at Wikileaks. Losing the connection mostly means that he can't publish or receive things directly over the internet and there's all sorts of reasons why they may have shut the connection.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @03:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @03:59AM (#415528)

    Regardless, we have to pillory Clinton over this, because it's obviously her fault!

    Regardless, we have to pillory the Russians over the contents of the leaks, because it's obviously their fault!