torified

But if you aren't, then yeah, not relevant.

That would be much more humane than dragging this farce out with endless legal purgatory before guaranteed solitary confinement for the rest of his life.

All for sharing proof of systematic illegal murder. It's sickening.

It would also serve as a warning against any possible future martyrs who might intend to rely on the law to protect them for doing the right thing by reporting on the ruling classes criminality.

This whole farce also cements the US spot as world police, when an Australian citizen can be disappeared for not following US law when not even in the US, and their UK lap-dog just cowers in the corner begging for more table scraps.

"Nothing to see here, move along citizen. Don't give me a reason to check your permanent record for wrongthink."

Think of the most boneheaded thing that you did in the last two years, then imagine that could have been the one mistake that gets you busted.

Also they probably get complacent about the whole thing eventually.

Of course not, it's a ridiculous allegation with no basis in fact.

A baseless allegation that would have rightly been completely ignored by police if it wasn't Assange.

Assange could have Tuberculosis too. So that's also rape, right? The flu? Also rape. He could be a triple rapist!

Just forget all that systematic government murdering, spying, and lying he revealed, we won't entertain facts from a possible triple rapist!

Of course nobody should be interested when his human rights are ignored, because that inexcusable behavior is so much more damaging for society than governments murdering innocent civilians, illegally spying on everyone, and lying to their own people about their actions.

GG military industrial complex.

Spineless and corrupt.

Most people have made the decision that the government is corrupt, Assange is an asshole, and there's nothing they can do about any of it because their elected officials are also corrupt.

That is hardly an endorsement of all the horrible things that the US government has been secretly doing in their name.

It's very dangerously close already, it's only a matter of time until those in power finally take the thin mask off.

Won't the citizens be surprised! Fox news never warned us of this!

TRUST US, WE'RE THE GOVERNMENT!

Can you explain what you mean by this? I've never had the time-dilation effects.

It was just my imagination as confirmed by the sober driver and other passengers.

I was aware that my mind was wandering though - at a higher dose I might not have been aware of that.

Stasi commandant Dutton has also recently introduced a bill to interrogate 14 year olds with no legal representation as well.

Bloody scary what's happening here.

Copy-paste and open source was enough to get into the Australian Parliament, apparently our pollies simply can't resist the allure of larger penises and wealthy Nigerians in trouble.

Or maybe, just maybe, there is just the slightest possibility that this is all just a manufactured distraction from other issues...

These are the nincompoops who passed a law to backdoor everyone's encryption and nuke their own country's IT industry from orbit with a law that nobody wanted. What a surprise that they can't keep their own data secure.

How would they know he was running tails particularly?

And what a happy coincidence that the 0day was patched before they even had a moral obligation to notify anyone about it. Quelle chance!

A designer handbag store to me perfectly exlemplifies a completely broken tax system and citizens being held hostage by a corrupt government and corporations defending their interests.

I sympathize with people who would want to damage that system in any way available to them.

I wouldn't do that particular act myself, but I also recognize that I've been very lucky to not have been one of the people who has suffered at the hands of such a broken system. Lucky I had good parents, good health and good education. The system has failed others, and shows no signs of self-correction without intervention.

I'm curious, did they try to put any pressure on you to unlock the devices for them?

It's about time the public started to take an interest in their own privacy. Even Snowden wasn't able to wake up the lobotomized masses.

Hopefully the techies will come up with more and better solutions to work around around brain-dead power grabs like this.

Incidentally, Matrix seems pretty damn good.

From the other link I posted:

"ASD has legal and policy coverage to do offensive cyber operations against selected foreign targets. But this is not intelligence – it goes well beyond gathering information and into the realm of actively disrupting people or organisations overseas by damaging their data and computers. But doing this in Australia is an entirely different matter.

It was disturbing to hear Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton say last year this will be done with the necessary warrants. There are no warrants for computer or data disruption in Australia – it is just plain illegal. Warrants under the Telecommunications Interception and Access Act approved by a judge or the Attorney General only permit interception and access for the purpose of gathering information/intelligence. There is no equivalent law for computer disruption,except for the law that says it is illegal – no exceptions. So we are talking here about a whole new legal framework."

That's the former head of the ASD warning everyone.

Yes, even under a "good Democratic system".

It's an interesting thought experiment what those tools would be like.

Maybe something like freenet mixed with ipfs over a wifi mesh network? Not sure how that would work with that much latency.

You could have throwaway wifi dropboxes to propagate between people.

One project I read about was a raspberry pi wifi "grenade". It boots off a usb with the encryption key then it runs off a ramdisk. Then you "pull the pin" and leave it. If it's discovered then nobody can analyze it to find out what it was doing or who it was communicating with.