Strange tweets last night were sent out by Wikileaks .. ‘pre-committments’ as they were called.. and only a few hours later, the internet world was in mayhem as Wikileaks sent out a message that “Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party” … they have “activated the appropriate contigency plans..”
The world is buzzing about whodunit, but before curing the initial cryptic tweets, some thought it was a message that Assange was dead. Gizmodo was among those to note that the 64-charater codes were strange indeed.. Rumors quickly were uploaded to Reddit and Twitter, saying that the numbers meant a ‘dead man’s switch’ was turned on–many know that these switches do exist..
After the initial ‘severed’ Tweet sent by Wikileaks, there has been silence .. no more Tweets. No official statements by any governments or “state party.” Nothing.
Wikileaks as an issue has been thrust into the presidential campaign, as anyone paying attention will know. With a debate this week and at least 9 sets (at the time I write this) of Podesta emails being dumped, along with these newest tidbits of info of espionage from the world of the darkest parts of the web, we will hear Trump talk about this quite a bit..
These “codes” are SHA-512 hash digests, likely for encrypted archives which are to be released at a later date. When the archives are released anyone with the appropriate software can compute the hashes and verify their integrity and authenticity (insofar as them having come from WikiLeaks unaltered).
Good point on this matter .. what I wonder is this: Were these coded SHA-512 hash digests (thanks for that info) sent after it was determined that Assange was “severed” fro the NET..? And was that the precautionary action taken by Wikileaks because of the severing..
Also interesting is how many people are still rumoring Assange to have been killed in some fashion and that the ‘sever’ comment is more than just cutting off a high speed line in an embassy..
