Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'

Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by VMG on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:54PM (#12726773)

Maybe not, but I haven't seen confirmations one way or another.

I don't know about wireless standards to say whether or not it's possible to selectively disable regions or devices.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by a3n on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:16PM (#12727004)

For the phone, the Gov would just have to tell the carrier to turn off the acount.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by PJDK on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:18PM (#12727018)

You can literally buy phones from vending machines in the UK.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by JohnStrange on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:46PM (#12727302)

Yes, but Assange cannot step out of the embassy to buy one himself, and he's fairly paranoid. There are probably only very few people in the world from whom he would accept a phone to enter all of his precious passwords, if he is willing to use a phone for that at all.

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Re:Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' by xorcist on Monday October 17, 2016 @06:29PM (#12730396)

It's probably all the same to him. Assange is likely clever enough to assume all his traffic is combed through by smart people, no matter which data transport he uses.

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