[chmod775]

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.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]

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]

Even worse, they thrive on scandals.

[jp555]

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]

Precious models like “standards” and “semblance of moral code”. :-:

[sixQuarks]

ugh, I think you're right. It's kind of become like "no publicity is bad publicity"

[big_chungus]

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

[rapsey]

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

[mike_hock]

The fact that he's being poisoned to death with sedatives suggests that at least his adversaries believe so.

[CrazyStat]

I'm not remotely convinced of that "fact" at this point.

[Lammy]

Sorry, would you clarify? It’s unclear what part of that statement you are questioning.

[CrazyStat]

I thought it would be pretty obvious that I was referring to the part about him being poisoned to death with sedatives.