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Herald: Welcome back on the Chaos-Sound
stage. I hope you had a great day so far.
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And after the Algorave talk, we are happy
to we're happy to host a talk by Andy
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Mueller-Maguhn. He is a long-time member
of the CCC. Now he is at Wau Holland
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Stiftung, and he's also a data journalist.
And today he will tell us a bit about
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things between WikiLeaks and the CIA. And
this talk is some kind of successor for
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talks he gave previously. And but for all
the details, he will tell them by himself.
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And yes, welcome Andy. And we're happy to
see what you can tell us. And all the
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interesting details that are in your talk.
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Andy: Thank you. OK. Good evening. So, I
named this talk "When WikiLeaks bumped
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into the CIA operation Kudo exposed". So,
explain a bit later what that is. Just as
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a reminder, the hacker community and the
CCC, even in its bylaws, one of the core
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things has always been information wants
to be free. First sentence up the hacker
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ethics brought a small snippet from Wau
himself where you will not hear the sound
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at this moment due to technical reasons,
but where he talked about the hacking of
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society through Freedom of Information. My
talk will have two parts, what happened so
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far and what should be done now. In the
first part. I just want to refer a little
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bit on the context of what I'm talking
about. So, this is about what happened
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surrounding WikiLeaks in the context of
the CIA and the United States government.
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Yeah, getting on them. I had two talks
about similar topics already in 2018 and
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2019 at the ..., you know, unfortunately
also. No, that was still the last real
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Congress. I talked about the technical
aspects of the surveillance. And you will
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see one image that I needed to copy from
that again. Then last year, I talked a
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little bit about the CIA versus WikiLeaks
to intimidation tactics. That was more
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what happened to me and other surrounding
WikiLeaks. Now, in the meantime, this
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year, end of September, came a very
important article in this context on Yahoo
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News, that seems to have been doing that.
Some guys have been hired there, who
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previously worked for Newsweek and others.
The article, from 26 of September, is
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called Kidnapping, Assassination at the
London Shootout, inside the Secret CIA
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Secret War Plans against WikiLeaks, and it
did reveal quite some things. It finally
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referred to my talk. It links even to the
video of my talk. It takes some quotes
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from it. It confirms a lot of it and adds
a lot. But it also frames and was framing.
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I mean, there is some disinformation
that's poisoning that otherwise very
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helpful article to understand what the
fuck was going on. So, what I'm trying to
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do today is to reconstruct the whole thing
a little bit to reframe it and help
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everybody to understand a little bit what
happened here. The Yahoo article
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rightfully distinguishes the timeframe of
the interaction, so to say, between the
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United States government and WikiLeaks
into four to five timeframes. One of them
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at the beginning of the WikiLeaks project.
Or, let's say, before Snowden, so before
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mid-2013, the Obama administration
authored the diplomatic cables had been
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published by WikiLeaks, Afghan / Iraq War
Logs and so on were out. They had the view
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that as long as some entity or some people
are publishing, are engaging and
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publishing it in journalistic activity,
there's nothing they can do because First
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Amendment of the United States
Constitution talks about the freedom of
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publishing the freedom of speech, and a
freedom that does include journalistic
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activity of all kinds. After the Snowden,
not revelations, but the fact that Edward
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Snowden was getting from Hong Kong on the
way to somewhere else, but he got to
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Moscow with the help of a WikiLeaks
editorial member, therefore in acting in
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what you could call journalistic source
protection. However, that brought the U.S.
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government to a slightly different view of
WikiLeaks. It didn't really like it, so
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Obama allowed the intelligence community
to prioritize collection WikiLeaks, search
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warrants, subpeonas, US National Security
Letters. So here we're not talking about,
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as far as the article mentions, about the
legal investigation yet. This intelligence
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work to, like they allowed them to get on
them? They also, in the context of the
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Snowden revelations, now, where it wasn't
WikiLeaks, it was Glenn Greenwald and
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Laura Poitras who had been given by Edward
Snowden the material, and they published
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the material together with Guardian, Der
Spiegel, the others. I was also involved
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with the Spiegel I should disclose.
However, they tried to relabel, not only
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WikiLeaks, but also Glenn, Laura and
others from journalists away to like
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information brokers. They tried all kinds
of definitions to circumvent the
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protection of the United States
Constitution, you could say. That went not
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that far. At least I have no actively
knowledge of a criminal prosecution
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running against Laura and Glenn. However,
there were for sure intelligence
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activities that they also reported on that
everybody who was involved in the
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publications, as you might know from
history, the Guardian was later forced to
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even destroy the computers where they had
put this Snowden material and so on. So,
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that was quite some things going on. In
2016, the next, yeah, like milestone in
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the change of the relations between the
United States government, WikiLeaks, to
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say it nicely, was the publication of the
DNC emails that by the definition of the
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National Security Agency, like they said,
this was Guccifer 2.0 was the Russian
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military intelligence at GRU and that the
whole publication was with the intention
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to hurt the interests of the United
States. This now is a first point where we
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could sit back from our European
perspective for a little bit and say, wait
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a moment. This was about leaking. I mean,
this was leaked emails. Or, however, let's
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say it was emails that somehow got leaked,
obtained or otherwise, but in any way,
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WikiLeaks published them. What the
discussion was about was how Hillary
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Clinton had treated Bernie Sanders as the
other candidate of the Democratic Party,
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and here obviously did not make it. She
made it. So, this we could call this
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exposing the facts in the public interest.
But as I said, the United States, at least
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National Security Agency and others seem
to have agreed that this was not intended
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to harm the United States, not what
Hillary Clinton did, but what WikiLeaks
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did in this publication. I think it's
important that we distinguish between how
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we evaluate these things and how the US
government puts this into different
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baskets or categories. However, then it
got much more wild, when WikiLeaks started
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at the beginning of 2017 to publish, with
the so-called full seven series, documents
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from the Central Intelligence Agency from
the CIA. Mike Pompeo was in charge of it.
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I did talk about this at length, and I
want to repeat this last year, so he got
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very upset personally because he was also
potentially personal responsible for it.
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So, It was under his watch, so to say.
However, the framing aspect of the article
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are worth having a brief look. The what
happened this year was so sad that the key
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witness of the prosecution Icelandic guy
called Sigurdor Thordarson made it public
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that actually he lied to the FBI and that
they fabricated part of the evidence based
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on his lies. Also, they could have
verified things. He later even was
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imprisoned for his multiple illegal acts,
and the Icelandic government saw it as
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reason enough to declare him a danger to
society and therefore lock him up. And
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that's not happening that easily in a
country like Iceland who normally people
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are very calm and down to earth. However,
the article came just after, a few weeks
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after, the publications on this fabricated
evidence. And it's fair to say that the
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gravity of the Yahoo article was a lot
higher and a lot more was discussed than
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about the fake evidence of the key witness
and so on. However, one other aspect that
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was in the Yahoo article was a thing that
is, from my reading, and I've talked to
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many people, there was no evidence for
this whatsoever. The Yahoo article claimed
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that there was the Russian government also
having like kind of officers in front of
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the Ecuadorian embassy or in the immediate
surrounding, preparing to help Julian to
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evacuate him, so to say, from England to
sneak him out, as the article says.,
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Russian intel preparing to sneak Assange
out of the UK. And this is a little bit
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wild and it's double wild when you or when
one looks at how the involvement of the
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Russian government, how that upsets
American people, the American media and so
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on. This is such a polarized environment
where the moment the Russian government is
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declared to be involved, it changes
everything. What's happened really here
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with something different and that is that
Julian had, in cooperation and in
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coordination with the Ecuadorian
government, found a way to legally leave
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the embassy and the United Kingdom by
becoming first an Ecuadorian citizen, then
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an Ecuadorian diplomat, and then in theory
he would have been able to leave the UK
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because a diplomat on the way to a
different working place has, under Vienna,
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diplomatic assurances, is immune from any
kind of interference. However, the article
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does reveal some aspects of what happened.
For example, the kidnapping plans, the
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assassination plans that the US government
considered the CIA played through ways to
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kill him in the embassy, to poison him, to
kidnap him from there. This kind of
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extreme acts did not happen, and the
article claims that, you know, justice
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prevailed. White House lawyers had doubts.
The National Security Council and the
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heads of the Senate and House Intelligence
Committees ensured that this wild ideas
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because they were not compatible with the
legal framework, not even with that of the
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United States, that that did not happen.
So, the article gives you kind of this
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American song melody of, yeah, we had some
wild things at the CIA going on, but you
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know, we are a democracy and we stopped
it. However, there were some actions that
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where, according to the article and the
witnesses and lawyers I talked to, well
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caught out, extensive spying on WikiLeaks
associates dealing with electronic
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devices. Then there were things there we
could talk about, like the article claims
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that, to what was also carried out, sowing
discord among the group's members. So now,
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if anyone of you is longer than a few
weeks in a CCC- like hacker club or
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working for a journalist organization or
working in any other group. I mean,
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according to my little experience, there's
quite a fight-club atmosphere out there
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for a while, and I'm personally, I
wouldn't always be able to distinguish
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between is this now a CIA operated, you
know, group fight? Or It's just normal
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group dynamics. People don't like each
other, people having disputes, people
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having different ideas how to do things
and so on. So, I would suggest you take
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this kind of claim with a grain of salt.
Not every dispute among a group has been
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created by the CIA. Also, I'm very
generous on bashing them. However, they
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also talked at some point they changed the
whole context of Julian and WikiLeaks from
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a target of collection to target of
destruction. Well, for sure, some things
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happened there, but this is not what I can
go into detail. So far, no detailed report
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on it. However, the project I talked about
that Julian would get legally out of the
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embassy as a member of Ecuadorian
diplomatic staff is coming together in a
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very it's like the most critical time
frame also, according to the article, and
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that we were able, that we were going
through with the lawyers to log files of
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the embassy security service, the videos
and so on. So, we have been able to
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identify the timeframe and the timeframe
is the 16th of December 2017 until the
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26th. This is the most critical timeframe,
because, around the 16th, he was
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officially not only declared a diplomat,
there was a publication in the Ecuadorean
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like a legal "judge set" or what it's
called. So like the legal publication in
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Ecuador to have him declared. He had,
around the 21st, the head of the
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Ecuadorian intelligence visiting him. So,
that means he also had the diplomatic
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passport. It was fully, formally done.
There was a discussion of the process and
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this meeting on the 21st I had mentioned
it in my talk last year was the most high
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priority conversation that ever happened
in the embassy, at least as far as we know
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from the witnesses of the security service
who later revealed to the court that they
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had been, yeah, instructed on behalf of
the CIA to do other things than to protect
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the embassy, but to spy on Julian. So this
meeting on the 21st was extremely
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important to the Americans, and we do know
roughly that the whole story ended through
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various means, but mainly to pressure on
the on the Ecuadorian government in Quito,
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in Ecuador, around the 26th when they
actually called the plan off because the
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Americans knew about every detail,
including how he would get out of the
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embassy, in what type of car and so on.
And they also then at some point denounced
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his diplomatic status after pressure from
the United States government. And in this
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time frame, I make here a little bit of an
event matrix, which is completely
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incomplete. I have to say this many things
missing for legal, for other reasons. You
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know, some things are just too wild. The
U.S. government, for example, would never
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break into a European law office, right?
We can. That's bullshit. That's conspiracy
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stuff. They don't do these things. They,
of course, comply with the law. However,
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we have some events that are funny and fit
well into our picture, for example, that
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after on the Saturday, the lawyers from
Spain and England were sitting together
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with Julian that two days later, in
preparation of that meeting on the 21st
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came the fire protection service into the
embassy. And those who seen my talk last
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year know that one of the fire
extinguishers placed in the meeting room
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had the main role for holding a bug.
However, I'm coming to that than we have
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this observation that every day in this
time frame, there was a silver gray Ford
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car with sometimes two, sometimes three,
sometimes more people sitting outside the
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embassy, seeming obviously to wait for
instructions. Something to happen. I'm
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coming to that and we have other things
going on at that timeframe, that kind of
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fit into the frame. So on the, ... I
selected three events to talk about them a
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few minutes. The first is this fire
extinguisher. 19:26 Here you see it and in
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on the right picture, you're seeing the
black bottom of the fire extinguisher.
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That's where they had a magnetic little
box with an audio microphone, I mean,
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audio bug in it, that seemed to have not
only recorded, but also transmits the
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conversations, in life, to the American
intelligence outside. Funnily, this, ...
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on the 18th comes a company, not even from
London, the Iceland Fire Protection
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Limited, a guy and goes into all the rooms
in the embassy to check the fire
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extinguishers. Now, according to the
lawyers, there had been intensive
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discussions with the employees, and David
Morales, the owner of U.C. Global, the
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company that was originally hired to
protect the embassy, is known to have
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talked to his people and emailed them,
mentioning that the Americans want also
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that all the other rooms at some point to
be bugged and want access to the fire
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extinguishers. We don't know exactly what
happened in that discussion to the last
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detail, but we know that on the 18th came
this British company. And this is a little
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bit crass, and I think there will be many
other embassies of other countries who
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will be interested to check if they don't
are maybe serviced by the same company.
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Now, the other nice event that I selected
is the night from the 23rd to the 24th.
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So, the very morning, early morning hours
on the 24th of December morning, Christmas
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morning, so to say, where you have the
three guys sitting in the car and on the
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back seat on the right side, someone reads
the briefing notes, I will show you the,
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oops. Don't tell me this. Hopefully it
works. OK, great. The video doesn't work.
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I'm sorry. I can't show you the video
today. Maybe courtesy of the CIA, however.
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So, the guy in the back seat browses
through the briefing notes, and we have
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been able to at least read part of what
they have been, ... what this briefing
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notes say. It says this page that we have
been able to read mostly was in the event
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of loss of camera coverage. So, there was
a process to be established when the
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surveillance cameras in the embassy
wouldn't deliver pictures anymore and the
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guys outside a sitting partly, according
to the article, the British police guys
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with guns, eight people, maybe without
guns, would be ready to jump into the
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scene. Crash diplomatic cars, shoot into
tires of cars that would try to bring
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Julian away, and so on, indicates which
way he would walk out. And so there's a
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few key words here that I just want to
emphasize in the event of lots of camera
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coverage standards, then there is talking
about something called GS7 that might be
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code-word for CIA or something different.
MET is clearly the Metropolitan Police.
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That's a normal acronym in England, and
they talk about the context of the
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operation Kudo. So we looked up the word
Kudo. Kudo is something saying roughly
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like friendship. So, we have to assume
this was a joint British American
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operation, and that's exactly what the
Yahoo article describes. However, what it
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does not describe is the legal
implication, because this could well be
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one of the most or best well documented
breaches of the Vienna Convention,
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basically saying that the premises of the
mission shall be inviolable, which is,
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normally means that you shall not bug, you
shall not, you know, put surveillance
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devices, cameras, hidden cameras or
whatever. You shall not hack into the
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camera surveillance system, of an embassy,
asked to host state and so on and so that
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intelligence do it and that the CIA was
doing it. In the case of the Ecuadorian
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embassy, it's already part of a Spanish
lawsuit. However, the dimension is a
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little bit different, as the British
police seems to have access have had
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access to that video surveillance, and
that is potentially legally different
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thing. That will be subject to some legal
steps going on in the next weeks and
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months. The third event I selected for
relaxation issues is on the last day. You
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see here two police officers carrying an
astonishing amount of eight cups of coffee
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for a relatively small police car. That
gives you an idea what was going on there.
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The British police being prepared to set
aside the conference room is about in the
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area where there was a trash bag on the
left side is so giving you an idea of how
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intense the British police was also on the
scene outside. So, what is currently
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happening with this and a lot of other
material? Is, well, checking the violation
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of the Vienna Convention then parsing
together many of the events and observing
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patterns and trying to see those patterns
at other places. As we, of course, still
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do not know the full scope of the
operations of the CIA and other
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intelligence agencies against WikiLeaks.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, what
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happened in London, but also to see where
other journalists were other citizens,
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where other governments, organizations,
whatever were may be targeted with same or
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similar ways and methods. So this brings
me to the second part of my little talk.
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The question what needs to be done? So,
and I tried to first invite you to a
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little reflection because, as some of you
might know, Julian Assange presented the
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WikiLeaks project in the CCC Congress, end
of 2009. If I recall correctly, he made
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another talk in 2010. This was very much a
project of the hacker community and it was
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highly welcomed at the time because it was
like combining the idea of Freedom of
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Information, which had always been and
sharing information which had always been
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the spirit of the hacker scene with those
of journalists and democratic, yeah, think
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tanks to ensure that we would have
actually an informed society, not just
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this very weird concept of an information
society which does not really say anything
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between the relationship between
information and society. But an informed
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society is a clear picture, I think. And
therefore, the better wording. So, the
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other question is, of course, is what?
What does this whole thing? This what we
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have been reading in the article and what
we're now a step by step here revealing
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and starting to understand. What does it
tell us about the United States
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government's prosecution, of DOJ, Pompeo,
the CIA, all these people? How (competent)
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are they really to decide to society that
is based on an informed electorate, like
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the people making decisions based on
knowledge and voting based on knowing
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what's going on? And that's slightly
disturbing, I think what we what this
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thought brings us to. So, here's my little
ideas, and then I will just come with some
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questions to the audience. So, yeah, what
can we do and what maybe should we do?
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This is, here, just some ideas of mine.
While we could, of course, hope that the
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United States, the people of the United
States, the government of the United
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States would understand that core
democratic value was attacked here when
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going against Assange, WikiLeaks and so
on. So in theory, we should, we could hope
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that the self-healing or the self
understanding and mechanisms of the United
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States society will stop this madness
because they will see, Hey, wait a moment,
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this is our constitutional First Amendment
that we are attacking here indirectly. And
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if we don't have like the publishers,
right, journalists and publishers right to
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inform the public, then we have nothing.
Well, the second, obviously, level would
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be to dissolve the CIA. Yeah, I mean,
Kennedy had this idea before, shatter it
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and the wind and so on. But I don't know
how at least this shall continue with that
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budget, with the information operations,
with the influence operations, where
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actually "wag the dog" is just a tiny
little aspect of it. Because the question
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is how shall a democratic government work
as long as there's an intelligence agency
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that has all the knowledge about every
person involved in all the little
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compromat boxes and the aspect of how to
nudge and how to influence and how to
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manipulate and so on? Well, and then the
third aspect outside the United States,
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here in Europe, is of course, the question
of how can we immunize those people,
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entities governmental organization and so
on where it still seems possible to
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understand that this is core, that
journalism and the right to inform the
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public by making also information and
material public that governments,
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corporations or whoever would like to keep
secret? But if that documents are playing
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a role in informing the public in the
public interest and it must be allowed to
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make it public, and that was what's called
the Fourth Estate or the right of the
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press to inform the public. Yeah, how can
we do that? That of course, more a
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question. And and here's my list of
questions that I will want to address to
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the audience. We should have 20 minutes
and maybe a few seconds for a discussion
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of this. So guys, how do we get Assange
out of jail? Ladies and gentlemen, how do
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we do it? How do we stop the
criminalization of journalism and those
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who ensure access to information in the
public? Is this in order to achieve an
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informed society? That's our duty I fear.
How do we ensure a value driven community?
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So, as everybody knows, the CCC had always
different factions. The political and the
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technical factions then came at some point
a party, the event and hedonism aspects
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all together. And we had a great fun time.
But I'm not sure that we also took care of
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ensuring that we are value driven
community all the way. I mean, when we
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look at this year and the NSA methods
that's obviously some kind of atmosphere
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between those who work in the I.T.
security industry and those who maybe then
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take offers from the intelligence
community. And that's not the spirit of
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the hacker ethics, and that's not just the
spirit of the CCC, and that's not the
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spirit of an informed society that people
with money who instrumentalized technology
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people and. You don't have to like look at
the CIA as the most crass, may be entity.
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It starts with the so-called Open
Technology Fund. I mean, we had various
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years the ability to observe how the Tor
project had its issues between the two
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worlds of the US government having this
and that ideas and our community having
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other ideas of how anonymization works.
And I'm not sure we can say that our
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values have been preserved and we have
ensured that OTF finance projects do not
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serve just some funny governmental
interest. And when it was relabeled partly
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from internet freedom to circumvention
measures that I think gave already some
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ideas on what could go wrong if, yeah,
governments start to fund projects of the
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so-called hacker scene. Yeah, so, this is
my questions to you guys. How do we get
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him out? How do we ensure our society
stays intact and democratic? And how do
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we, as a scene, avoid to be corrupted by
governmental money and funny interests?
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And I hope the moderation cannot take over
and provide some answers from the
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audience.
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Herald: All right, thank you very much,
Andy, for your talk. Let's see how this
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will work. Thank you, also, for your
questions to the audience.
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Andy: I will try, in the meantime, to fix
this video and make it this one minute, 23
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seconds video.
Herald: All right.
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Andy: I can show it, but maybe you can
start to take the questions.
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Herald: Sure, yeah, and yes, so let's say
to the audience, please put your possible
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answers to Andy's questions in the chat. I
will. I will follow them as good as I can.
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And so that we can have a lively
discussion. I know it might be a little
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bit limited because in a presence
Congress, it would be easier to interact
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with it with each other. And. But yeah,
let's see that. And but first of all,
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maybe Andy, if you have the capacity for a
question from the interwebs. Then the
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question would be, how did you obtain the
pictures and camera footage from the
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embassy?
Andy: Well, this has to do with a legal
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analysis of this material. I'm myself, by
the way, you could switch on the video if
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you wanted. Well, I am myself accusing the
Spanish company to have spied on me and
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other colleagues, and so I'm part of that
legal proceedings. As as such, I'm also
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helping the lawyers to obtain the
technical evidence. There was a shitload
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of digital evidence confiscated that
needed forensic examination and so on. So
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this is material accessible to those who
have been affected by the illegal
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activities performed by U.C. Global and
others.
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Herald: All right. Then there's also the
question of are there pictures of the four
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or the people inside it, but I think
that's pretty much a part of the video you
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have just shown or is there something
different?
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Andy: Is it? I'm sorry, I don't see what
is being broadcasted. Do you have access
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to my sliding-to-the-streaming-laptop?
Herald: OK, yeah. I guess that
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Andy: This is the full video where you can
see the guys reading the briefing notes on
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the back seat. We have been able to zoom
in at (unintelligible) and so on.
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Herald: And yeah, where the question was,
where did you get it from? But I think you
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already answered that in the previous
question, because ...
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Andy: That's no answer to my question.
What should we shall do, guys? laughing
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Herald: Yeah. So, we have one line of
feedback, for example, that, uh, how to
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get Julian Assange out of jail. One
proposal is "ask our foreign minister,
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give Julian German citizenship", make it a
"Chef-Sache". So, part of the part of the
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chancellor. Uh, that's what it means in
German, in every German activities.
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Question mark? Would that work?
Andy: Mm hmm. It's being worked on. I
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mean, the new we have a new foreign
minister who is a woman from the Green
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Party, and she seems to be very much a fan
of United States German relationship. I'm
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not sure how much she sees about a lack of
values that the U.S. government represents
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watching the history of the U.S.
Constitution and so on. But I'm sure there
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is a lot work to be done there, and the
Green Party used to be also interested in
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a society and stand for human rights and
so on. So I would say, yes, it's
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definitely it is a path to go.
Herald: All right. There's also a
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question, are you so be you personally
still under surveillance? Do you know?
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Andy: Well, I've taken some legal and
technical measures, and the German
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authorities have some evidence I provided
to them still in their analytical labs and
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so on. It's a little bit unrealistic to
assume that the Americans would not
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continue watching those who surrounded
Assange and WikiLeaks it as a member of
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the Wau Holland foundation, and we finance
the, ... we financed many of the
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publications and things or aspects of the
publication. So, it would be unlikely that
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the US lost interest. But at least for the
moment, they seem to behave a little bit
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more, especially after the Yahoo article.
I think it became very obvious also to the
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German authorities what was going on. So
the article was helpful. It's just that
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some aspects of the article are just pure
rubbish and disinformation that try to
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smoothen it up a little bit.
Herald: Mm hmm. All right. May I ask you
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to, maybe, just also bring up again the
slides with your questions, so we will
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have to put
Andy: Just a second.
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Herald: I think this will help to spark a
bit of discussion also.
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Andy: Sure, good point. ...Seem to need to
browse through. Here are the questions.
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Herald: All right, thank you. And, uh.
Another answer to how to get him out of
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jail is "Keep talking about Julian Assange
and the public attend vigils". I don't
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know what that means. Actually, uh, write
articles, write comments. Call the
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Department of Justice, talk to
politicians. Communicate." So this is this
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is one answer. Like, like keep, keep the
word out.
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Andy: Yeah. I mean, let me briefly try to
interact with whoever gave that
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suggestion. I think it's well known that
in Germany, in France and some countries,
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there was quite some campaigns going on at
the last months, quite some people on the
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street acting for Julian and a series of
events and so on. Also, a little bit in
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England, but England seems to be a very
tough under two aspects. The one is that
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they don't have that of a self
understanding of a country with a
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constitution guaranteeing freedom rights,
You know the United Kingdom does not have
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a constitution and it doesn't have what's
called constitutional rights. It does have
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similar statements, but they are not as
clearly defined and as a value system of a
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democratic society. So, most British
people, if you ask them to do something
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for freedom of press like the press, these
assholes, what should I do something for
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them? It's all very complicated and a bit
polarized over there. So but then the
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other aspect is that the UK government, to
say it bluntly, there's quite some people
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who say that the UK government does what
the US government says. And in this case,
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there is no way, according to that
interpretation, that you can avoid the UK
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government handing Julian over to the
Americans. So, the problem needs to be
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addressed in the US. And Germany and other
European countries have a different
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history, obviously, and I'm at least sure
that if Julian would be in Germany, I'm
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not sure he would be not having any
issues, but there would be a different
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discussion. However, the question how the
so-called old Europe or the continental
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Europe that is now even more ignored,
after a bitter exit from the Brits, can
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have any influence here in England, I
would say forget it on the US. It's more
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complicated. But for the moment, it seems
that similar to what happened to Julian
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and WikiLeaks in our own community, that
there was quite a time-frame when the
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reputation to character assassination had
took on so much that actually he was seen
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as as a persona non grata more or less.
The United States political atmosphere is
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even more complicated and more polarized
between left, right and nuts, and whatever
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that, it seems a very tricky task to bring
some sense into that discussion. As long
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as you have the military intelligence
apparatus and Hillary Clinton saying,
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like, "hang him on the highest trees". So
there seemed to be quite, and that's also
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mentioned in the Yahoo article, a revenge
aspect of the United States legal system
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here. Not only Pompeo, that want to, yeah,
basically, to kill Julian as a symbol that
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no one should ever try to reveal the dirty
laundry of the United States. So yeah,
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this is a bit tricky and we will need more
ideas and how to also initiate a better
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discussion in the United States, maybe.
Herald: Mm hmm. Related to that. Another
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answer we got was, for example, of how to
how to stop the criminalization of
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journalism. And maybe also other question
of these questions is a vote for the right
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people. And uh, while it probably can help
for some things, and what comes to my mind
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is, I mean, indeed, in this and also other
prosecutions and trials, very often there
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are some, uh, some ancient laws involved
on those grounds. People could get
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prosecuted, right? Isn't it, for Julian?
There is. There is the Intelligence Act,
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or what's the name of...?
Andy: It is called the "Espionage Act". So
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basically what the U.S. prosecution does
is there's a so-called secret grand-jury
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that might have even more investigations
running against Julian, and WikiLeaks than
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that what has been put into the
extradition inquiry to the U.K. at this
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point. However, that one already accuses
him to violating the Espionage Act, not
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declaring him having spied for another
country, but funnily having revealed
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secrets to the American public and to the,
of course, public of other countries.
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That's what they call espionage. That's a
little bit ridiculous. And it is, however,
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even more of a concern watching the fact
that a U.S. journalist would be able to
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claim the protection of the First
Amendment, the right of freedom of speech
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and the right of publishers and
journalists and so on. However, they deny
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that because he's not a U.S. citizen. So
the US partially exports their laws and
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says, Well, you violate that against this
American law called the Espionage Act, but
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they do not grant him the protection of
the U.S. legal system. And that is, to
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call it hypocrisy is, I'm sorry, is too
nice. This is just really fucked up.
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Herald: Mm-Hmm. OK. Shouldn't, try to get
rid of, maybe like, the Espionage Act or
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or at least...
Andy: I am all for it. Dissolve the CIA,
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get rid of the Espionage Act. I'm all for
it. I just fear that at least part of our
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community will have to become, I don't
know, lawyers, lobbyists. Maybe we need to
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look for better communications with the US
hacker scene and see if they can kindly
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get into political consciousness mode and
get for a moment distracted from
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technology developments into society
development and see what can be done to
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ensure that in the future, we have the
right as a citizen to know what's
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happening in our name by government and so
on.
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Herald: Mm hmm. All right. Yeah, because
for example, I remember a couple of years
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ago, I don't know whether it was in the
2013, the year of Snowden or later where
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we also had a talk at Congress about the
German post surveillance, for example,
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where back in the,... I think it was the
seventies. Uh, where we had the "Nato
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Truppen-Statut", got into play. But there
was a verbal note from the from the forum
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to the German government who told the
allies, Well, we will be part of the "Nato
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Truppen-Statut" and all but don't be
afraid you will be able to have these
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powers. And as before, under Allies law,
you could say, and only after this, uh,
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the information the the investigative
journalism of I think it was a historian.
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(...His toleration?...) Exactly. Mr
(...Fischer-Bot...). But uh, only after
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that came out, uh, to government had to
say, OK, well, we want to stop this. And
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now this at least officially is over.
Andy: Well, I mean, it's not really over.
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Germany is still a member of NATO, and
these regulations are still in place. And
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just to have it said, I mean it. The vault
7 revelations. If you look at the
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publications of WikiLeaks, you will see
the modules the CIA had developed to make
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software, a Trojan, a malware, whatever
kind of manipulations, to look like, it
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was coming from a specific country
timezone. So to make a malware or attacks
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on it systems make them look like they
come from Russia, China, Iran, you name
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it. North Korea issued a list as well. And
this is the scenario we're looking at
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already. If you if you look at the news,
what happened the last years, we had all
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these attacks, it was Russia, it was
China, it was Iran, It was North Korea
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must probably have forgotten some other
people who it was blamed on. But the
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discussion that the CIA would be having
the tools to make attribution misleading
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to a country. So what's called a false
flag operation in military terms is
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creating a scenario where exactly we as a
NATO member are now looking into military-
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like conflicts again, because the media
environment has been so poisoned with, "it
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was those guys and those guys hacking our
I.T., our parliament, our, you name it".
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This worries me. It worries me that we as
a technical community have not spent more
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attention to avoid the media environment
was able to like, create again just
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paintings of enemies and create an
atmosphere where war between countries
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seems possible again. And that's something
that's deeply disturbing to me. And I
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think this is something we have to work on
more as a community also to ensure that
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technical knowledge is not abused for
like, yeah, political games by withholding
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information.
Herald: Mm-Hmm.
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Andy: And what I should mention is, yes,
we are only having about two minutes left
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here, something I didn't agree to be
available for a little discussion and a
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whistleblower tent that's somewhere in
that virtual world. And the audience will
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hopefully find it.
Herald: All right.
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Andy: So then or whatever it's called.
Herald: Uh, sorry, and once once again,
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what's the name of the of the whistle
blowert tent..
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Andy: Of the dog whistle blower village?
Herald: Okay, all right. So go out to the
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whistleblowers tent. And so after after
this talk. And so maybe one last question.
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Is it possible to sue the UK government
for the treatment of Assange before the
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European Court of Human Rights?
Andy: And it's a little complicated.
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What's happening right now is I don't
think other talks have covering it is that
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Julian tries to avoid his extradition and
there is specific aspects of this which he
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might at some point be able to address at
the European Court of Human Rights. That,
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in theory, could stop his extradition, but
only if specific criteria are met, met and
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so on. How much now the UK government will
listen to it after the Brexit, and so one
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is its end due to political atmospheric
reasons. That's a little tricky. The
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European Court of Human Rights is not part
of the EU agreement, so it doesn't matter
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that the UK stepped out of the EU, but it
is still an instrument of Europe and not
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of the friendship between the United
States and Great Britain. So. The
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atmosphere of the British government does
not suggest at this moment to be overly
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sensitive to anything coming from
continental Europe to say it carefully.
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And that's pretty bad. All right, so,
yeah. Thank you, Andy, for your for your
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talk. For everyone who's interested in to
form a discussion with you, please go over
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to the whistleblower. Talk on this channel
at cos it's on the stage. The next talk
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will be reproducible building network
infrastructure by Astro, which will start
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at 9:30 p.m.. So tune in for the next
course on a talk as well. And that's it
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for now. Thank you.
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