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How does this affect Assange's supposed "dead-man" switch? Wasn't the idea that he has the push the switch every 24 hours? Wouldn't that require internet access?

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Does he even has a dead-man switch? It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship.

If he is holding something excessively damning it's quite problematic for for his supports and him, eventually that information would start losing it's value and it will not be a dead-man switch anymore.

This is also a problem because it forces him to dig more and more dirt that can be used as a dead-man switch rather than releasing the information.

> It is quite contradictory to his own philosophy or releasing everything without any consideration or censorship.

You mean the philosophy that has him releasing material with carefully timed consideration to maximize attention to his own pet cause?

Carefully timed means biggest impact, which means Wikileaks stays high profile, gets more funding, etc. There's nothing wrong with being a bit self serving if that results in an overall higher score on whatever your final criteria are.

Fine, but then one can't claim his philosophy has anything to do with "releasing everything without any consideration or censorship." He is de-facto censoring/holding back knowledge that he possesses, with a specific agenda in mind.

Yeah, like someone submitting stories at a certain time of day to HN instead of just when the idea hits them... oh sure, of course they would say "I thought you might find this interesting, that's all I'm doing here", but I'll feel secure in the knowledge that you'll show up to call out their "specific agenda".

I know he has his agendas, possibly I should have used "his self proclaimed philosophy" instead.

He recently said they have info on Trump but won't release it.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345...

This is a bit misleading. The article you point to says that yes they do have information on Trump that they won't be releasing, but it's nothing compared to the crazy stuff that comes out of Trump's own mouth on a daily basis.

He then says that they would like to get hold of internal documents from the Trump campaign and calls publicly for people to send in things to be published from the Trump campaign.

I don't think him providing a reason for not releasing the documents makes what I said misleading. You find his explanation to be reasonable? I do not. Sometimes he is an editor and sometimes not. Why is he even comparing these things to what comes out of his mouth? Which side of his mouth? As if there aren't questions about what Trump may actually believe or want or do. Personally when I hear what Trump says I think it only provides more reasons to wonder what he may actually say when not performing in public.

I would tend to believe him when he says that the info they have isn't really interesting, considering he freely offered up the fact that they in fact did have some information on him at all.

If there was someone else out there claiming they sent wikileaks material of signifance that was not being published then that would be different.

I suspect they've disabled it, or somehow changed it to a more manual process, e.g. phone call or physical meeting.

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