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Does anyone have the specifics of what was the exact nature of Julian Assange’s help in cracking the password? Specifically, 1. Did Assange send Manning the na

Does anyone have the specifics of what was the exact nature of Julian Assange’s help in cracking the password? Specifically, 1. Did Assange send Manning the name of utility that would crack the password? Or 2. Did Assange send Manning a link to the utility in order to download it? Or 3. Did Assange send Manning a page of Google search results, and/or a Wikipedia page, a technical article or blog post with the computer science fundamentals behind password-cracking? Or 4. Did Assange send Manning a technical article or blog post with step by step instructions to crack the password? Or 5. Did Assange crack the password himself? I apologize if this information has been released somewhere and I haven’t seen it. In addition, apologize if the questions that I asked sound painfully fundamental or demeaning towards Assange or Manning. What I am trying to get at is how easy it seems to get in trouble with the law in this case. Suppose someone comes up to me and says they want to know how to hotwire a car (or whatever the term is) in order to steal it, I happen to blurt out that this someone can “just Google that”, and then this person goes out and does just that without me being totally sure about their intent to do so. Am I now an accomplice to the crime?

r721 8y ago
Here's the chat excerpt: https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1116341065416462336 https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1116341065416462336
- tareqak 8y ago
  Thanks a lot 'r721 ! That’s even more worrying where there might be mismatch between the recorded intent and the actual intent.
  - r721 8y ago
    This subthread is quite interesting, apparently "In a conspiracy charge, the outcome doesn’t need to be achieved, only there was a “meeting of minds” and steps taken to achieve that end goal": https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1116417498168156166 https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1116417498168156166
- int_19h 8y ago
  The saddest part in this Twitter thread is the comment about Manning being a sociopath, and how people who disagree are "entitled whites". Not sure what the connection is even, but there's a certain irony given that Manning exposed killings of indigenous non-whites in what many on the left consider to be, in essence, a white colonial adventure.

r721 8y ago

Here's the chat excerpt: https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1116341065416462336 https://twitter.com/kpoulsen/status/1116341065416462336

tareqak 8y ago
Thanks a lot 'r721 ! That’s even more worrying where there might be mismatch between the recorded intent and the actual intent.
- r721 8y ago
  This subthread is quite interesting, apparently "In a conspiracy charge, the outcome doesn’t need to be achieved, only there was a “meeting of minds” and steps taken to achieve that end goal": https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1116417498168156166 https://twitter.com/MalwareJake/status/1116417498168156166
int_19h 8y ago
The saddest part in this Twitter thread is the comment about Manning being a sociopath, and how people who disagree are "entitled whites". Not sure what the connection is even, but there's a certain irony given that Manning exposed killings of indigenous non-whites in what many on the left consider to be, in essence, a white colonial adventure.