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How does this affect Assange's supposed "dead-man" switch? Wasn't the idea that he has the push the switch every 24 hours? Wouldn't that require internet access

How does this affect Assange's supposed "dead-man" switch? Wasn't the idea that he has the push the switch every 24 hours? Wouldn't that require internet access?

dimino 10y ago
I suspect they've disabled it, or somehow changed it to a more manual process, e.g. phone call or physical meeting.
dogma1138 10y ago
Does he even has a dead-man switch? It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship. If he is holding something excessively damning it's quite problematic for for his supports and him, eventually that information would start losing it's value and it will not be a dead-man switch anymore. This is also a problem because it forces him to dig more and more dirt that can be used as a dead-man switch rather than releasing the information.
- squidfood 10y ago
  > It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship. You mean the philosophy that has him releasing material with carefully timed consideration to maximize attention to his own pet cause?
  - MichaelGG 10y ago
    Carefully timed means biggest impact, which means Wikileaks stays high profile, gets more funding, etc. There's nothing wrong with being a bit self serving if that results in an overall higher score on whatever your final criteria are.
    - squidfood 10y ago
      Fine, but then one can't claim his philosophy has anything to do with "releasing everything without any consideration or censorship." He is de-facto censoring/holding back knowledge that he possesses, with a specific agenda in mind.
      - PavlovsCat 10y ago
        Yeah, like someone submitting stories at a certain time of day to HN instead of just when the idea hits them... oh sure, of course they would say "I thought you might find this interesting, that's all I'm doing here", but I'll feel secure in the knowledge that you'll show up to call out their "specific agenda".
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    I know he has his agendas, possibly I should have used "his self proclaimed philosophy" instead.
- aljones 10y ago
  He recently said they have info on Trump but won't release it. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293453-assange-wikileaks-trump-info-no-worse-than-him http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345...
  - CoryG89 10y ago
    This is a bit misleading. The article you point to says that yes they do have information on Trump that they won't be releasing, but it's nothing compared to the crazy stuff that comes out of Trump's own mouth on a daily basis. He then says that they would like to get hold of internal documents from the Trump campaign and calls publicly for people to send in things to be published from the Trump campaign.
    - aljones 10y ago
      I don't think him providing a reason for not releasing the documents makes what I said misleading. You find his explanation to be reasonable? I do not. Sometimes he is an editor and sometimes not. Why is he even comparing these things to what comes out of his mouth? Which side of his mouth? As if there aren't questions about what Trump may actually believe or want or do. Personally when I hear what Trump says I think it only provides more reasons to wonder what he may actually say when not performing in public.
      - CoryG89 10y ago
        I would tend to believe him when he says that the info they have isn't really interesting, considering he freely offered up the fact that they in fact did have some information on him at all. If there was someone else out there claiming they sent wikileaks material of signifance that was not being published then that would be different.

How does this affect Assange's supposed "dead-man" switch? Wasn't the idea that he has the push the switch every 24 hours? Wouldn't that require internet access?

dimino 10y ago

I suspect they've disabled it, or somehow changed it to a more manual process, e.g. phone call or physical meeting.

dogma1138 10y ago

Does he even has a dead-man switch? It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship. If he is holding something excessively damning it's quite problematic for for his supports and him, eventually that information would start losing it's value and it will not be a dead-man switch anymore. This is also a problem because it forces him to dig more and more dirt that can be used as a dead-man switch rather than releasing the information.

squidfood 10y ago
> It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship. You mean the philosophy that has him releasing material with carefully timed consideration to maximize attention to his own pet cause?
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  Carefully timed means biggest impact, which means Wikileaks stays high profile, gets more funding, etc. There's nothing wrong with being a bit self serving if that results in an overall higher score on whatever your final criteria are.
  - squidfood 10y ago
    Fine, but then one can't claim his philosophy has anything to do with "releasing everything without any consideration or censorship." He is de-facto censoring/holding back knowledge that he possesses, with a specific agenda in mind.
    - PavlovsCat 10y ago
      Yeah, like someone submitting stories at a certain time of day to HN instead of just when the idea hits them... oh sure, of course they would say "I thought you might find this interesting, that's all I'm doing here", but I'll feel secure in the knowledge that you'll show up to call out their "specific agenda".
- dogma1138 10y ago
  I know he has his agendas, possibly I should have used "his self proclaimed philosophy" instead.
aljones 10y ago
He recently said they have info on Trump but won't release it. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293453-assange-wikileaks-trump-info-no-worse-than-him http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345...
- CoryG89 10y ago
  This is a bit misleading. The article you point to says that yes they do have information on Trump that they won't be releasing, but it's nothing compared to the crazy stuff that comes out of Trump's own mouth on a daily basis. He then says that they would like to get hold of internal documents from the Trump campaign and calls publicly for people to send in things to be published from the Trump campaign.
  - aljones 10y ago
    I don't think him providing a reason for not releasing the documents makes what I said misleading. You find his explanation to be reasonable? I do not. Sometimes he is an editor and sometimes not. Why is he even comparing these things to what comes out of his mouth? Which side of his mouth? As if there aren't questions about what Trump may actually believe or want or do. Personally when I hear what Trump says I think it only provides more reasons to wonder what he may actually say when not performing in public.
    - CoryG89 10y ago
      I would tend to believe him when he says that the info they have isn't really interesting, considering he freely offered up the fact that they in fact did have some information on him at all. If there was someone else out there claiming they sent wikileaks material of signifance that was not being published then that would be different.