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I'll read that as "[I'd be] surprised if Julian Assange doesn't have a [dead man's switch] in place". And indeed he does. Some time ago Wikileaks/Assange distr

I'll read that as "[I'd be] surprised if Julian Assange doesn't have a [dead man's switch] in place". And indeed he does. Some time ago Wikileaks/Assange distributed an encrypted insurance file. The torrent is about 90GB: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-06-03_insurance.aes256.torrent https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-06-03_insurance.aes2... There was actually multiple versions fo this file, each larger than the previous one. This is the most recent version afaik. It's likely this particular dead man's switch is actually trusted people though.

jacobush 7y ago
I wonder if this could backfire. With the "normal" or old guard politicians, this could have been a credible threat. Nobody wanted a scandal. With the new breed, scandals are just life.
- m-p-3 7y ago
  Even worse, they thrive on scandals.
  - sixQuarks 7y ago
    ugh, I think you're right. It's kind of become like "no publicity is bad publicity"
  - jp555 7y ago
    Chaos is a ladder, unless you're a theorist. To theorists chaos is destruction (of their precious models). To practitioners chaos is a ladder. Those with real Skin In the Game. Economist vs. Trader.
    - jacobush 7y ago
      Precious models like “standards” and “semblance of moral code”. :-:
rapsey 7y ago
Yeah but that could also just as well be random data.
- mike_hock 7y ago
  The fact that he's being poisoned to death with sedatives suggests that at least his adversaries believe so.
  - CrazyStat 7y ago
    I'm not remotely convinced of that "fact" at this point.
    - Lammy 7y ago
      Sorry, would you clarify? It’s unclear what part of that statement you are questioning.
      - CrazyStat 7y ago
        I thought it would be pretty obvious that I was referring to the part about him being poisoned to death with sedatives.
big_chungus 7y ago
I believe this version is more recent, perhaps a small update: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2017-01-25_WL-Insurance.aes256.torrent https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2017-01-25_WL-Insurance.a...

jacobush 7y ago

I wonder if this could backfire. With the "normal" or old guard politicians, this could have been a credible threat. Nobody wanted a scandal. With the new breed, scandals are just life.

m-p-3 7y ago
Even worse, they thrive on scandals.
- sixQuarks 7y ago
  ugh, I think you're right. It's kind of become like "no publicity is bad publicity"
- jp555 7y ago
  Chaos is a ladder, unless you're a theorist. To theorists chaos is destruction (of their precious models). To practitioners chaos is a ladder. Those with real Skin In the Game. Economist vs. Trader.
  - jacobush 7y ago
    Precious models like “standards” and “semblance of moral code”. :-:

rapsey 7y ago

Yeah but that could also just as well be random data.

mike_hock 7y ago
The fact that he's being poisoned to death with sedatives suggests that at least his adversaries believe so.
- CrazyStat 7y ago
  I'm not remotely convinced of that "fact" at this point.
  - Lammy 7y ago
    Sorry, would you clarify? It’s unclear what part of that statement you are questioning.
    - CrazyStat 7y ago
      I thought it would be pretty obvious that I was referring to the part about him being poisoned to death with sedatives.

big_chungus 7y ago

I believe this version is more recent, perhaps a small update: https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2017-01-25_WL-Insurance.aes256.torrent https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2017-01-25_WL-Insurance.a...