Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is expected to appear in a UK court tomorrow!

[Carsten Wiethoff]

About bloody time. But now what brought this on? Some one is having their arm twisted or there is an arms deal in here some where.

Could it have to do with this:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikileaks-unlea...em-1566702

Whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks has released a fresh 88GB 'insurance file' to the web in anticipation of a mysterious upcoming announcement but what could be lurking inside? While the content of the elusive torrent file remains unknown, speculation is rising it may be linked to the promised data on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

[Magda Hassan]

Hmmm, I just checked with Interpol http://www.interpol.int/notice/search/wanted and to the best of my abilities I could not find the red notice for Julian Assange. Possibly it has been cancelled (or timed out?).
Google is silent on this. Interesting.

It would seem to be the case but there has been no news from Interpol saying that there is no longer a Red Notice for his arrest. There are 2 media releases from them about it. One from 2010 when he was first issued the red notice and another in 2012 after he was granted asylum and Interpol were saying that the notice was still in place.
http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2010/PR101
http://www.interpol.int/News-and-media/News/2012/PR065

[Magda Hassan]

About bloody time. But now what brought this on? Some one is having their arm twisted or there is an arms deal in here some where.

Could it have to do with this:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wikileaks-unlea...em-1566702

Whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks has released a fresh 88GB 'insurance file' to the web in anticipation of a mysterious upcoming announcement but what could be lurking inside? While the content of the elusive torrent file remains unknown, speculation is rising it may be linked to the promised data on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Wow. 88 GB is a huge amount of data. Plus there are the 2 existing encrypted insurance dumps from when he was first arrested.

[Peter Lemkin]

Wow. 88 GB is a huge amount of data. Plus there are the 2 existing encrypted insurance dumps from when he was first arrested.

Yes, that is a huge amount of data to add to an already huge amount of encrypted data! These must make the US Secrecy Establishment very nervous and doubly determined to 'get' Assange! The way the Assange matter has been handled legally [sic] is, from what little we know at this point, very poorly and in fact illegally and immorally - it is all political. Interestingly, the UK seems to be equally guilty in the matter as Sweden - despite both claiming to be lawfully neutral in the matter. I'll be surprised if the interview of Assange comes off in the near future and interested to see what Swedish prosecutors will do then...most likely keep their current stance that they need Assange in the flesh on Swedish soil [so they can then send him to the USA for incarceration and torture].

[Magda Hassan]

Yes, that is a huge amount of data to add to an already huge amount of encrypted data! These must make the US Secrecy Establishment very nervous and doubly determined to 'get' Assange!

But if they 'get' Assange the insurance pays out because they keys will get released. There are hundreds and thousands of people who have it downloaded waiting for the keys to release it all. They definitely don't want that. They want to keep all their dirty secrets under wraps even more than they want Assange.

[Peter Lemkin]

Yes, that is a huge amount of data to add to an already huge amount of encrypted data! These must make the US Secrecy Establishment very nervous and doubly determined to 'get' Assange!

But if they 'get' Assange the insurance pays out because they keys will get released. There are hundreds and thousands of people who have it downloaded waiting for the keys to release it all. They definitely don't want that. They want to keep all their dirty secrets under wraps even more than they want Assange.

Yes...But....I don't claim to be able to follow their thinking [nor morality], but they could well weight this against the prospect of future data exposees from Wikileaks that harm their secrecy fiefdom even further. Some of them may even dream of putting Assange in such jeopardy that in their mind he'd fear about releasing the keys for fear of his life or further torture - though I don't think that would work - I'm just trying to look into their evil minds and ways of thinking. They likely even have contingency plans to 'neutralize' Assange and all those with the ability to release the keys, if they feel it in their interest - and all kinds of other 'lovely' alternatives.

[David Guyatt]

It seems pretty obvious to me that this locked Wkileaks dump is to do with Hillary and if so, then it might well be terminal for her, given Assange's comments on the Peston show last Sunday. Hillary and the US must know what's in the file and I dare say that the Swedish prosecutor's decision results from the Hillary camp (or the Neocon) camp trying to negotiate a release for him if he doesn't release the files. But given the history, I'd be astonished if Assange wouldn't stick his fingers up at such an offer.

[Magda Hassan]

DNCHack: Did Kim Dotcom warn the world about the Democratic Party hacking?

DNCHack: Did Kim Dotcom warn the world about the Democratic Party hacking?

Date June 24, 2016 - 7:34AM

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Chris Zappone

News editor, foreign desk

'Assange, Clinton'€™s worst nightmare': Kim Dotcom

In a 2015 broad-reaching interview with Bloomberg, Kim Dotcom has alleged Julian Assange will target Hillary Clinton.



Did Kim Dotcom warn the world the Democratic Party hacking was coming?
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom said in 2015 that he knew of information that was going to create an obstacle for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election bid.
Kim had tweeted that he would be Hillary's "worst nightmare in 2016". When pressed on the matter in a 2015 interview, he said WikiLeaks' Julian Assange would in fact prove a bigger thorn in the side of Hillary: "I'm aware of some of the things that are going to be roadblocks for her."
Providing transparency: Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom Photo: Peter Meecham

Assange "has access to information", Kim said, without elaborating.
"If I can provide some transparency with these people," he said referring to Assange, "then I will be happy to do that."
Last week a hacker going by the name Guccifer 2.0 released what appears to be the Democratic Party's opposition research on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump as well as financial reports and donors' personal data. It has since produced more reports purporting to be about the presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's donors.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Photo: Getty Images

While data theft from US presidential campaigns have happened before, the prospect of hackers - especially ones backed by a foreign nation - dumping US election-related data during the campaign for the global public's consumption is new.
Kim's warning suggested evidence of such an attack was available months before the event was revealed.
​ Guccifer 2.0 said his hacking effort was underway for almost a year. Based on the nature of the attack, independent researchers in the US concluded the hack was conducted by or for the Russian government.
And Assange, who now reportedly holds the rest of the DNC hack information, says more information will soon be released.
When contacted about future data releases, WikiLeaks replied only: "We have a very big publishing year ahead."
Asked this week via social media if the damning information Assange claims to have on Hillary's campaign comes from "Russian hacks", Kim replied: "No comment."
A Twitter account belonging to Guccifer 2.0 has been contacted for comment.
WikiLeaks is gearing up for more data drops. Earlier this month, Assange said his site would be leaking documents that would provide "enough evidence" to indict Hillary Clinton.
On June 18, WikiLeaks released a file for followers to download and retain as insurance to back up the organisation's future leaks. Calling it "WikiLeaks Insurance", the file is not viewable without a second encryption key which can be released if "anything happens to WikiLeaks".
Although Hillary Clinton is the subject of investigations over her handling of emails, even Assange admitted it was unlikely the US Justice Department would indict her based on whatever information he had.
Assange, who has lived at the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 to avoid a series of extraditions that could see him tried in the US for his role in the Cablegate leak, is seen as being friendly to Russian interests.
In 2013 his father travelled to Syria to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Russian ally.
Not only does Assange's call for transparency appear to be focused overwhelmingly on Western countries, the hacker-turned-dissident tweets statements that tend to support Russian positions on a variety of issues. Assange also claims ot have helped ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden travel to Russia.
New Zealand-based Kim, meanwhile, is in a protracted legal battle with the United States Department of Justice, which accuses him of criminal copyright infringement through his now defunct Megaupload file hosting service. In 2012, police raided his home.
Fergus Hanson of the Sydney-based Lowy Institute and author of Internet Wars: The Struggle for Power in the 21st Century, says that although the Guccifer 2.0 attack is "just a short cut way for [Russian-backed hackers] to gather internal knowledge about Trump (hoovering up the pack that Clinton's team has already gathered)" the theft of the data is "not that surprising".
"If they use it to somehow help Trump against Clinton say, then that is totally different."
Nonetheless, Hanson doesn't see it as damaging as other major leaks including the Chinese government hack on the US Office of Personnel Management, which will "will have repercussions for decades."
The threat of further data dumps on the Clinton campaign comes as Russia has moved away from traditional diplomacy towards a variety of strategies for advancing its international political goals.
After the initial DNC hack was revealed, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign said: "What appears evident is that the Russian groups responsible for the DNC hack are intent on attempting to influence the outcome of this election."
Former US intelligence officer Fred Hoffman says there are scenarios in which Russians could try to influence the election.
"There's a number of very good reasons for the Russians to have hacked both the DNC and the Clinton Foundation computers," he said.
Hoffman noted that the Russians "have a vested interest in understanding who may become the next president" as well as having "dirt" on either candidate that "they could potentially use in a covert action to influence the outcome of the election".
Russian officials and media have made statements suggesting they prefer Trump over Clinton, Hoffman said.
"If they see the election as being close, and decide there is an opportunity to influence the outcome in their favour, they may well be tempted to exploit the information acquired via these hacks for that purpose."
"That would be a high risk/high reward operation, though," he said.



http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/...pp15a.html

[Peter Lemkin]

Ugh!....while I don't want Clinton, I want Trump even less....is there any hope Sanders will be chosen - he is the only person who can beat Clinton. I think the information to be released on Clinton could be the only thing that could make a Trump electable. It would be a disaster much worse than all the previous disasters as President!

[Magda Hassan]

Mmmm...cat burglar at the Ecuadorian embassy in London? Late night visitor who lost their key? Hilary's cleaner? Swedish legal team discretely coming to interview Assange? Something more? Surely there are lots of cameras on this building given its tenant.

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 8h8 hours ago 16 mins ago at 2:47am a "cat burgler" scaled the side wall+window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London; fled after being caught by security.