So that's what this does
That guarantees a few more months of this media circus.
Or they might agree to extradite him this week in which case you know it's purely political.
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I think he's thinking Just as planned...
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
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He is. He's mentioned before that he has had his finger on several Dead Man Switches.
edited 7th Dec '10 3:54:43 AM by Yej
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scratching at .8, just hopin'
Didn't he hint that many of them related to major banks, involving the events that led to the recession?
*grabs the popcorn*
edited 7th Dec '10 5:18:57 AM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.
/also grabs popcorn
After he made that threat they kinda HAD to arrest him. Otherwise he gets away with "YOU CAN'T ARREST ME I'LL BLACKMAIL EVERYONE" and that sets a pretty bad precedent. So yeah, what Kinkajou said. "Just as planned."
edited 7th Dec '10 5:38:52 AM by Bur
i. hear. a. sound.
As much as one can critique the danger of releasing diplomatic and military cables, the thought of him uncovering the corruption and incompetence of the major bankers is too delicious to ignore. The mere thought of them being held accountable, their dirty laundry laid bare in exquisite detail is giving me an almost sexual amount of pleasure.
"When you cut your finger, I do not bleed." Response of a man who lived on the outskirts of a concentration camp.
If he's telling the truth about the banks (which I doubt) I can say that I would be very happy to hear it too.
I want to see what dirt he has on the banks.
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Given his track record, I doubt it's something we don't know yet.
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.
I agree. I want to see what the banks were doing.
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Getting dirt on banks would be several orders of magnitude easier then security services/military information of the same level. The latter are very good at practicing proper protocol, and keeping things under wraps. As demonstrated by the fact that nothing major has been released so far. On top of that if you release code word level material you will be caught, and the punishments are beyond severe.
Guessing this isn't the case with banks.
"When you cut your finger, I do not bleed." Response of a man who lived on the outskirts of a concentration camp.
This was the one news story that made me sit up and turn up the radio when I was listening to NPR on my way to work this morning...
Holy shit, I thought, I can't wait to hear all the blackmail Assange is holding back...
I'm keeping posted here for any new details. NPR was sorrowfully sparse in their announcement. Mostly just speculation on him getting extradited to the USA.
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I think s it's less blackmail and more an excuse. This information would have released either way, but now there are just people waiting and a media circus waiting for it too. Just as planned.
edited 7th Dec '10 8:01:19 AM by americanbadass
[[User Banned]]_ My Pm box ix still open though, I think?
MASTER-DEBATER
Julian Assange may have been V&, but the group will NOT release the emergency files
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/12/07/wikileaks-plans-release-insurance-file/
EDIT: Just as keikaku. TL note: Keikaku = plan.
edited 7th Dec '10 8:13:16 AM by BalloonFleet
WHASSUP....... ....with lolis!
...one wonders why they needed the blackmail thoughts in the first place.
The 1.5-gigabyte file, which has been distributed to tens of thousands of fellow hackers and open-government campaigners around the world, is encrypted with a 256-digit key, The Sunday Times reported. Experts interviewed by the paper said that even powerful military computers can't crack the encryption without the key.
Contained inside that file — named insurance.aes256 — are believed to be all of the documents that Wiki Leaks has received to date, including unpublished papers on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and papers belonging to BP and the Bank of America. Assange has previously suggested that the documents are unredacted, meaning they contain names that normally would be removed before publication to protect the lives of soldiers, spies and sources.
Well this is certainly interesting. Looks like the Grand Finale for this might be just around the corner.
If nothing else, they won't disappoint.
edited 7th Dec '10 8:37:07 AM by Pentadragon
DUMB
Huh, 256 digits is less than I expected. Without specifics, though...
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Well, you only need 128 to make it unbreakable against all the computing power on Earth.
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DUMB
That's just what the NSA wants you to think. 
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Unless the NSA have quantum computing, they're somewhat stuffed.
edited 7th Dec '10 10:52:13 AM by Yej
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At 256, even quantum computing is insufficient.
@Yej
I'm not much of a maths geek — could you euclidate that formula for me?
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In a 128-bit encryption scheme, there are 2^128 keys possible for any given message. What that links shows is the amount of time it would take to go through every single one of those keys in sequence, assuming that you had 150 billion processors, each capable of trying 5 billion keys per second. Since this comes out to be approximately the age of the universe, even the NSA doesn't have the resources to crack it.
But Wiki Leaks file's key isn't 128 bits long. It's 256 bits long, which doesn't, as you would think, double the amounts of keys possible. It squares the amount of keys possible, making it take an unimaginably long amount of time to crack, even if you converted the entire universe into computers.
(And there are some encryption schemes that use 512 bit long keys)
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DUMB
Let's see, 256 bit key bumps it up to... 3.57 x 1058 times the age of the universe. That may just be the largest timespan I've ever heard of. ._.
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And the Joker is in the bag.
INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.