The media ensures that nobody really loses, probably because they also have something to lose.
The thing that gets me is that with all the talk about Assange being a traitor or being tried for treason or whatever - he isn't even American.
The owner of this account is temporarily unavailable. Please leave your number and call again later.Well, in the eyes of some people, everyone is American, or at least beholden to the Glorious United States of God's Country.
"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remakeI call shenanigans. Assange was in Britain evading a warrant from Sweden out for his arrest. It wasn't until Interpol relayed the arrest warrant to Britain that Assange decided that he should turn himself in. But the warrant Sweden issued had been issued 2 weeks ago. Britain wanted additional information with the warrant before arresting and providing Assange for extradition.
If he was going to turn himself in, he'd have flown to Sweden a week ago (or earlier) instead of waiting for Scotland Yard to get the warrant to arrest him.
edited 8th Dec '10 12:48:44 AM by Swish
He stayed in Sweden while the search warrant was first out and offered to talk to the police. This offer was strangely ignored by the Swedish police.
"That said, as I've mentioned before, apart from the helmet, he's not exactly bad looking, if a bit...blood-drenched." - juancarlosHe says he stayed in Sweden, and offered to talk to the police.
Whether or not that's true... let's just say I'd believe statements made by OJ first.
How many times did the swiss issue and retract an arrest warrant before he left the country?
Zero. The warrant only came after he left the country, then was retracted twice... At least, that's how I saw the sequence. Perhaps I should check again.
So he had left in August? The first warrant was issued on August 21 and existed for about a day.
Yes, he was in Sweden the week prior to the warrant, left Sweden, then the warrant was issued after Swedish authorities failed in attempts to contact Assange. He wasn't in Sweden when the warrant was issued, and hasn't been back since.
He only started saying he "made himself available to Swedish authorities but they declined to speak with him" three months after the fact...
Well I don't know about you but I wouldn't spend hundreds of pounds and several days to travel to a country just because somebody had made frivolous accusations about me.
He went to Sweden for a few days, left, someone made accusations against him, the authorities issued a warrant and then announced publicly that there was nothing to worry about, the charges were baseless and withdrew the warrant.
If the authorities weren't interested in discussing it, what sane person would go back there?
Meh. I personally liked Assange saying that because he wasn't personally presented with the charges (as required by European Union law), he has no intention of heading back to Sweden (as is his right).
But he isn't going telling Sweden (or anyone for that matter) where he is (so they could present him with the charges, if they were serious) because he needs to "stay safe"...
But he's also made himself available to Sweden if they want to talk.
As I said above, I'll believe OJ before Assange...
The only people who obstructed Sweden making the charges was the British establishment. There are ways you do this and you do it properly. Once they did it properly and we were ready to present the charges to him, he turned up on our doorstep.
Given that it goes without saying he has received death threats (what internet veteran hasn't?) not publishing his location to the unwashed masses at a time that they might be serious is a sensible course of action. Whether the authorities knew where to find him ... well, that's his word against the word of people who wouldn't know, since the authorities aren't gossiping about a case pending trial.
This is incredibly entertaining. When this is all over, I want to be the lucky bastard who gets to write the Oscar winning screenplay 15 years from now.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.Note on earlier posts: BQP contains integer factorization. A 256 bit number can be factored on a quantum computer with something on the order of 16,777,216 steps. If each step takes a millisecond, that's only 5 hours of computation time.
Quantum Computing is not n times faster than regular computing. It is not a speed up. It is a different tool that solves different problems differently and with different complexities.
edited 8th Dec '10 7:15:25 PM by CTrombley
Mathematics Is A Language.Owned by the Trombley.
So basically your saying they could decrypt it in a reasonable amount of time?
edited 8th Dec '10 7:37:03 PM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?Of all people, Naomi Wolf captured my thoughts on this perfectly.
The Beauty Myth might have been a great tome of nonsense, but it appears Wolf isn't a complete loss.
edited 8th Dec '10 11:24:30 PM by TibetanFox
If the crackers have a large quantum computer, and there is not reason to think that they do, then yes.
If the design of their cryptographic system is good (and there's no reason to think it is not) then the most efficient known method is the general number field sieve. I'll look up the details of the sieve and post on it's efficiency when I have time.
Mathematics Is A Language.Yeah but he stated 256 AES encryption. It's not RSA or discrete logs. I'm not sure if AES can be done via that method, i think it was only the square root for AES.
A well chosen 256 bit number in the general field sieve algorithm would take ~3.4 years to factor.
Didn't know that. :)
I'll check and see if there's anything BQP can do with substitution-permutation networks, but you know.
Mathematics Is A Language.Making it a pretty damn good algorithm :P
edited 9th Dec '10 8:27:29 AM by breadloaf
Naomi Wolf does get it, although she could have said a bit more explicitly that those 'rape' charges are an insult to any real victim of sexual abuse, especially those whose rapist is still on the run in another country.
"That said, as I've mentioned before, apart from the helmet, he's not exactly bad looking, if a bit...blood-drenched." - juancarlosI'm more concerned that the Western hunt for Assange used Interpol or am I mistaken about what was used? I'd like to know if it was an Interpol warrant or a European warrant. The reason I am concerned is that Interpol specifically states it does not handle sexual assault charges in order to stay politically neutral.
Greaaat. One side's going to cry about how this is a disgrace and how THE MAN is keeping us down, the other is celebrating and throwing a party over the evil little anti-patriot.
/troll
In all seriousness, the media's done a good job of lessening the impact, since most of the files are "what the US thinks of this guy/shit that's common sense".
Half-Life: Dual Nature, a crossover story of reasonably sized proportions.