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originally posted by: Kettu
Wikileaks has been compromised since last October at least. Several of his lawyers turned up dead back around that time.
The "deadman's switch" went live back then as well, and the key to decrypt it is hidden inside the Bitcoin blockchain.
Assange knew S was going to hit the fan back then, and likely did indeed think he was truly in danger. The CIA and GRU/FSB were fighting over control for him.
Russia ended up winning that covert fight, which culminated in the Ecuadorian embassy cutting his internet access.
There's a reason he's not been seen in public lately, and none of the insurance files that Wikileaks has released since October have security hashes that match. Odd...
And Assange himself hasn't been signing any of his messages with his PGP key, which he tried to explain (and failed miserably) in a Reddit AMA that was...well...how should we say..."weird"?
Assange got called out directly and dodged every direct question, leading to even more questions.
Oh, and if you want to hunt for the key hidden in the Bitcoin blockchain? Good luck, the NSA will Xkeyscore you. People were dropping like flies when the search was really going strong. People were air-gapping their computers and even then still worried. Reddit got DDOS'ed for it. I never brought it up on ATS before because I was afraid discussion of it might cause ATS to get hit by a DDOS attack as well.
As I've explained before, if you can find and get invited to very hard-to-find "bunkers" on the deep web, all of this is well known and understood by many.
originally posted by: C84K2
a reply to: jhn7537
Interesting theory here by Thomas wictor
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originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: JBurns
Oh now he's dead... Okay. Well good riddance then.
I doubt he's dead though. I doubt this is anything but people's imaginations running wild.
Look how fast you guys went from I wonder to its fact...
originally posted by: Sillyolme
Again??? What was as it a few weeks ago ?? Something about a dead mans switch? Before that? What was it? Some cryptic message that turned out to be dust in the wind.
I'm sure he just loves the attention but I don't get you guys chasing rainbows.