▲ 382 ▼ ‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com) submitted 2 years ago by zephyreks@lemmy.ml [M] to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released. No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Kayel@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago As a terrorist they could torture and kill him without covering anything up. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-01/julian-assange-supporters-write-to-pm-over-reported-cia-plot/100504522 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released. No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago As a terrorist they could torture and kill him without covering anything up. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-01/julian-assange-supporters-write-to-pm-over-reported-cia-plot/100504522 permalink fedilink source parent