Anonymous ID: b6a5c9 April 13, 2019, 7:01 p.m. No.6169759   🗄️.is 🔗kun

WikiLeaks 'dead man's switch'? Assange's arrest prompts speculation on possible major data dumps

 

Published time: 13 Apr, 2019 23:51

 

The arrest of the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, has re-ignited speculation around the co-called "insurance" – large encrypted files, uploaded by the website. What they are and when they will get opened is still not known.

 

Assange's seven-year exile ended on Thursday, when the Metropolitan Police dragged the publisher out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. While his fate is in limbo, even more uncertainty surrounds the WikiLeaks "insurance" files – believed by some to be the website's "dead man's switch" option: a massive encrypted data dump whose decryption keys will be revealed in case Assange gets arrested or killed, or WikiLeaks gets taken down for good.

 

Now that Assange is in custody, speculation has swirled that the keys are about to be made public – but nothing has happened so far.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/456441-insurance-files-assange-wikileaks/