I like this fella. It's got nothing to do with the hillary-trump thing either. He's been a steadfast whistleblower regarding the hard truths about American imperialism globally since he started Wikileaks.
I've always believed that it would get to the point of requiring sousvellence gear for us plebs. Well, I guess Julian is the first pleb now, because I figure he could use this. We will rig up a system that reports his okay-ness every _ minutes. That is, if he's alright with that. If he is, it will increase the attention wikileaks is getting by highlighting the very real danger he's in.
if you're a principled info-anarchist type, guess what?
Crazy guy in photo above?
That could be
you.
So, what we're looking for people is a smartwatch that has one of those heart-monitor-thingies. I do not know which one to buy. Maybe an android smartwatch with a 3g chip. Assange himself recognizes that he's in danger. I want him to have a panic button that alerts the entire motherfucking web. This post isn't to raise money for the smartwatch, I have some money. This post is merely to get from the steem community the right model-- I prefer cheap but really who gives a fuck in the end?
(Prefer cheap, also because I can customize the software for most of the "cheap" android smartwatches. I cannot do that for the proprietary (read: qualcomm-based) smartwatches. Anyway, I don't know what the right doohickey is to purchase. I realize that it might not actually give him any advantage he doesn't already have. But suppose for ten seconds that it did. Would it be worth 20-70GBP? 150GBP?
Well, it would be to me, anyway.
I'll do this with or without ya steemit, but I'd really like the opinions of people who've used "smart bands" and "smart watches". I haven't.
That's all I've got to say about this one. Please help me to identify the right software, and ensure that the software will run on the hardware. For mediatek chipsets I can build clean android.
PS: Here's why I had this idea:
....a cursory googling did not reveal to me weather the hero of the hour was actually alive or dead. Not kosher, seeing as we all stand to gain from this man's continuing to have a pulse....
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thank @faddat for a LOT of that part. out of all the people I have worked with and helped over the years, very few have given back as much as @faddat. And because of this, I and you and others will have the tools we need to at least START fighting back in a way that will scare the shit out of the status quo elite.
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I think you might enjoy this article: http://johnpilger.com/articles/freeing-julian-assange-the-last-chapter
Muchos gracias for the article, Senor.
Pilger is a BIG supporter of Assange - they are fellow Aussies!
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Muchos gracias senor :D.
He says he has a dead man's switch.
Prefer he doesn't need to use it.
No joke, man.
Yes, much respected, but what happened in Sweden, you can't go around bothering woman.
Indeed, @rubellitefae is correct. This is going to sound kinda fucked up but any time a person does something controversial AF, and suddenly is accused of sexual crimes without a shred of evidence, well.... It's a pretty tried-and-true intelligence / manipulation tactic-- and look-- it worked in Assange's case, and is still working today!
When they want you they want you and they get you.... put on a tracking device won't help him. Staying put is his best bet. They have already tried some funny stuff where he is at now but they couldn't pull it off. Had he been out and about he probably wouldn't be alive.
That's true. I wrote a story on that, as well.
(the funny stuff)
This was a character assassination campaign. It's been proven.
Great idea I too find it hard to find current posts. I mean I can go to wikileaks. But I like to hear intelligent comments to go along with recent release. Maybe lazy too. But that's how I roll
The problem with this plan is they cut off the internet to the area. So, the watch has no where to communicate to.
I will gladly put my full resources into a plan to have unblockable internet everywhere to everyone on the planet.
yes, who will build the first graphene mesh net!?!
@lovejoy
Yes, I am thinking of a mesh network. But, I do not know of any that scale well to a million nodes, or more like a billion nodes.
Anyone have ideas how to work a net with 100,000 visible nodes, and probably as little as 10 hopes to anywhere in the world?
You would need to have many more than 100k nodes. The way to build such a thing is to build a wired core using fiber and wireless edges.
If you use today's radio standards, then you would either need to encroach on the bandwidth set aside for LTE or have about a billion nodes using 2.4g wifi. Other solutions include satellites (but these tend to be high latency and not as reliable as needed) or terrestrial SDN.
And... Well what we are really discussing is building a new internet, so why not start with our traditional pal, tcp/ip?
It is a steadfast protocol...
@builderofcastles
Did they?
Are you sure? That's terribly hard to do in an urban area (but not impossible, and not outside the reach of UK.gov... however supposedly Ecuador did this, NOT uk.gov. It'd be illegal and really, really hard for ecuador to shut down 4g to an area of London.
But, I'll rule nothing out.
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Okay, so Ecuador shut down his internet link.... but we really don't know what that means, do we? And actually, that's definitely a problem with this plan to help him out. I feel bad for the guy I start to go crazy after a few hours disconnected, he's got to be positively losing his shit.
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I have always held him in high regard but have lost a lot a respect for him as his ego and his hatred for the Clintons (as deserved as it may be) has in my opinion clouded his judgement. Fine, release the Clinton emails, but on the precipice of a possible cliff known as a Trump presidency, if he really cared about truth, release Trumps tax returns. I'm sure the IRS is easier to crack than the White House, or DoD or even the CIA. Why hasn't he? In my opinion because his ego and grudge against the granted corrupt Clinton's has clouded his judgement. Edward Snowden is a patriot. I used to think Assange was a truth seeker, but now, I don't what to believe of him. Sure the possible rape allegations are quite possibly a diversionary tactic, but as it is a horrific crime, I say let it play out in a court of law. But to only be hacking away at the Clinton's, and timing his releases for the greatest impact to effect the election, i call BS, and either Trump or Russia paid him, or his ego is more important than truth. Otherwise, why not release connections of Trump/Putin, or how about some KGB documents proving how Putin has systematically destroyed and murdered his opposition? For these reasons, i will defend his right whistleblow, but not his methods or motivations. He has lost most of my respect. But i hear where you are coming from...
I know nothing of his methods or his motivations. I just know he is a guy in a shit spot.
"but on the precipice of a possible cliff known as a Trump presidency, if he really cared about truth, release Trumps tax returns"
--Don't buy into the clown show. One is every bit as bad as the other.
I would love to see Mr. Assange make his way to steemit.
....
I'm sure all he needs is a recommendation and a red carpet
If he uses the steemit chain to archive leaks then they can't be taken down or censored in any way seems like an obvious solution. to beating censorship. but what do I know?
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Generate keypairs and host the semi-public ones on a server, the private keys on the watch? Have the watch store private keys from Assange that must be triggered by his pulse, without ever missing a beat in X seconds? Upload the next private key to the server once # of beats passes? (This assumes he'd always wear it, and is never without WIFI or a cell data connection.)
Maybe better to store audio(and video? privacy issues) from a smartphone that automatically uploads every five minutes, then deletes the uploaded portion from the phone's memory, so if there's a scuffle, or he sees an intruder, it gets recorded.
I also don't see how he could trust a smartwatch from anywhere or anyone he didn't know and love. The CIA(or "malevolent others") has likely considered killing him, and probably would, if it was as easy as mailing him a smartwatch with poison on it or radioactivity in it.
In any case, one of the better things that could be done is to pursue necessary "pre-goals" like the building of AGI in "as near to human as possible" robot bodies. ...There are many reasons for me saying this, but the foremost is summed up as "the goal-structure with the most relevant intelligence to the satisfaction of that goal is likely to achieve the goal, or, in the case of conflict, to win the conflict." Superintelligence is militarily supreme, and that is what the goal of libertarianism or "classical liberalism" is: to use force justly. Right now, force is mostly used in unjust ways, to steal from the innocent and destroy those who resist. Moreover: there is no long-term freedom in which AGI is not libertarian, and there is no short-term freedom in which AGI did not become libertarian (because, by default, all new AI supports the goals of the status quo).
If we want liberty, we need smarter libertarians.
Nice comment!
I hold a similar, but different viewpoint on AI. I think that we aren't scared enough. Look into how financial AIs are trained.
That's an eye-opener.
Great post @faddat. I appreciate you seeking this as a method of keeping the public informed. Assange is a very important figure in this game of blowing the wistle and his safety should be a great concer. To "the people" of this world.
If we can save his hearts beat on the blockchain every everytime it hashes we have a record that might as well be written in stone.
At least until an emp attack.
I'd like to do this for snowden as well. Let us know what you come up with....
@forrestwillie
Terrible shitty thing here:
I think that I way underestimated the shit-sea that Mr. Assange is swimming in currently. Please understand how deep of a shit-sea he's in: SO in the 1990s Assange wrote a software program called rubber hose filesystem. It's an encrypted filesystem designed specifically for torture resistance.
Now, everything could be just fine. That said, with not a peep from Camp Assange, and widespread mobile proliferation, I 've got to assume something is seriously, beyond-smartwatch boned.
Which really sucks, and probably should have been apparent to me when I wrote this story. Do you have any ideas on how to aid our favorite men with targets painted on their backs?