Tocky on 26/4/2019 at 14:45
If anything being a puss and picking on those nations you think least likely to hurt you speaks of how much better those nations are as opposed to the one you won't pick on. I suspect more nefarious motives because when you are dealing with Russia there are ALWAYS more nefarious motives.
icemann on 26/4/2019 at 17:52
Whilst I completely agree there, the Tetris stuff wasn't so much. Though it was of taking ownership of something an individual did. That said he did develop it, on government time in a government run place and he was a government employee. So I can see the Russian government side on that one, even if I don't agree with it. Mentioning this one, purely down to it being the only one I know of, of a Russia invented thing, marketed worldwide to great success.
Starker on 26/4/2019 at 18:50
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Not China, they're not exactly into rouge sites and internet freedom.
To be fair, it is a terrible colour for web design.
Renzatic on 26/4/2019 at 20:39
Quote Posted by icemann
Whilst I completely agree there, the Tetris stuff wasn't so much. Though it was of taking ownership of something an individual did. That said he did develop it, on government time in a government run place and he was a government employee. So I can see the Russian government side on that one, even if I don't agree with it. Mentioning this one, purely down to it being the only one I know of, of a Russia invented thing, marketed worldwide to great success.
Back in Soviet Russia, everyone was a government employee, doing everything on government time.
caffeinatedzombeh on 1/5/2019 at 11:20
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So Julian Assange has been arrested, and very likely to be shipped off to America shortly, regardless of what the police say.
He's just been sentenced. 50 weeks so he'll not be going anywhere for 6 months or so at least.
Tony_Tarantula on 29/5/2019 at 17:53
How on earth do you justify a hacking charge?
It's patent bullshit because everything we know indicates that Wikileaks has not hacked anything, anywhere. They merely platformed hackers and published information obtained by hacking. That's not a crime to publish that information with the exception of stolen PII.
Renzatic on 29/5/2019 at 18:39
I believe the Democrats want to indict him as a co-conspirator of both the DNC hack, and Chelsea Manning's little shindig. In other words, they believe he didn't act as a neutral repository, merely hosting the information provided him, but as an active participant in both of these crimes.
heywood on 29/5/2019 at 18:39
Assange allegedly cracked a password hash for Manning. That's where the hacking charge comes from.