Swedish Court To Julian Assange: No, You Still Can #39;t Leave
While Julian Assange #39;s latest appeal to lift his arrest warrant was rejected by a Swedish appeals court, the court also put pressure on prosecutors. Follow Sebastian Martinez: http://www.twitter.c...
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Julian Assange, Morning News, 21.11.2014, Jaihind TV
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WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange will get into trouble, potentially a 35-year sentence in the United States, if he leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London, which he says he would to mend his health and catch some healing sunlight. Regardless of what he might have done to offend powerful countries with his treasure trove of revelations, South Asians should be grateful to him for shining the light on key issues that are as relevant today as they will be in the future.
He exposed, for example, senior Indian leaders for their fawning connections with American diplomats contrary to public postures of aloofness. Everyone from journalists to BJP leaders to Rahul Gandhi bared their hearts to US interlocutors. Assange also traversed issues that threaten the security and prosperity of India.
Lets consider two. Prime Minister Modi last week alerted his military commanders about future threats his country faces. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has never been in any agreeable position to brief the military on vital issues, found an audience in former US ambassador Timothy Roemer during the latters tenure in Delhi. It took WikiLeaks to tell us how the worried Congress leader shared his perceptions of what threatens India.
The Congress scion, according to WikiLeaks, told Roemer that his fear for India came from right-wing Hindu groups. They posed an emerging challenge to Indias survival as a secular democracy. This is a view shared by other mainstream parties, for better or worse, chiefly the left.
Mr Modis unexplained reference to an invisible challenge, on the other hand, has been interpreted to mean various things from Pakistan to China, from cross-border terror groups to home-grown challenges he might have had in mind. Be that as it may, it should be strongly hoped that the invisible threat the prime minister spoke of took into account an invisible threat that has sent the US and President Barack Obama into a tailspin. We have already written about the incalculable threat South Asia faces from the intractable Ebola outbreak in western Africa, not by accident alone, which is the usual route of transmission, but by design.
Julian Assanges findings give a direr context to the threat. US diplomats were concerned, as their cables revealed in December 2010, that India could be the target of a biological terror attack.
In an unanticipated variation of the WikiLeaks revelations the Ebola virus, focus of military research for several decades in many countries, seems to have wormed its way into the United States, in fact, more worryingly than has been reported in our patch. Last week, the Chinese military reportedly sent vials of its purported antidote, which no one claims to know much about, to its citizens potentially exposed in western Africa.
According to WikiLeaks, a senior Indian diplomat told the US as early as in 2006 that concerns about biological weapons were no longer academic, adding that intelligence suggested terror groups were increasingly discussing bio-warfare. WikiLeaks cables confirmed this.
A recent link between Muslim terror groups eyeing the Ebola virus as a weapon unfolded cannily along the lines that WikiLeaks cables etched out. The Islamic State terrorists in Iraq have demanded that the US release a suspected Al Qaeda conduit who was arrested in Afghanistan with alleged plans to weaponise Ebola. IS links up with Al Qaeda which links up with Ebola in one stroke.
The Indian intelligence picked up chatter indicating jihadi groups are interested in bioterrorism, for example seeking out likeminded PhDs in biology and biotechnology, a cable presciently sent to Washington was quoted as saying in the 2010 trawl.
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Chelsea Manning, the US army soldier who worked as an intelligence analyst in Iraq before being arrested for passing state secrets to WikiLeaks, says the only way to defeat Isis is to allow the group to set up its own contained failed state where over time its fire would die out on its own.
Writing in the Guardian, Manning says her experience as an all-source analyst near Baghdad in 2009-10 leads her to doubt the strategy being followed by the Obama administration. She warns that the US-led mission to destroy the extremist group is destined to fail because it will merely feed a cycle of outrage, recruitment, organizing and even more fighting that goes back decades.
Even with the support of non-western forces, attacking Isis directly from the air or with special forces on the ground risks mission creep and the repeat of past errors. I believe that Isis strategically feeds off the mistakes and vulnerabilities of the very democratic western states they decry, she writes.
Presenting a radical alternative blueprint for how to deal with the extremist group, Manning argues that the best way to degrade Isis is to allow it to set up a failed state within a clearly demarcated territory. There, Isis would gradually become unpopular and unable to govern, she predicts, and the ideology of its leadership would be discredited in the region, potentially forever.
Eventually, if they are properly contained, I believe that Isis will not be able to sustain itself on rapid growth alone, and will begin to fracture internally. The organization will begin to disintegrate into several smaller, uncoordinated entities ultimately failing in their objective of creating a strong state.
Manning was posted to Forward Operating Base Hummer outside Baghdad where as an intelligence analyst she had a ring-side seat on the largely Sunni insurgency, poring through classified databases to track the movements and tactics of groups including Isis. She was arrested in May 2010 and is now serving a 35-year sentence for leaking vast quantities of secret official documents and military videos to the open-information website WikiLeaks.
Manning wrote the Guardian article in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is in military custody. An appeal against her sentence is expected to be heard by the US army court of criminal appeals next year.
As the global coalition of more than 30 countries takes shape around the search for a military response to Isis, Mannings proposals point in a strikingly different direction. Western countries, she says, should show sufficient discipline to let the barbarity and brutality of the groups attacks including recent beheadings of two Americans and a Briton work against them.
Instead of bombs and bullets, the US and its allies should seek to weaken the jihadi threat through a combination of containment and propaganda, she says. They should staunch the flow of money to the extremists by halting ransom payments for hostages and cutting off oil revenues from Bayji in Iraq.
She also says US and its allies should try to reduce the numbers of young people joining the Isis camp from western countries by countering the narrative put out by the group in its recruitment videos.
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In amongst all the new features included in Android 5.0 Lollipop, you might have noticed this one: New devices come with encryption enabled by default. Android has offered the feature for several years but now any phones or tablets that come shipped with Lollipop have it switched on out of the box.
That makes it much harder for anyone law enforcement agencies, thieves, and so on to get data off your phone, and iOS includes a similar level of protection. This extra security comes at a cost though, and thanks to some in-depth reporting by AnandTech we know that built-in encryption is having a significantly negative impact on the Nexus 6s read and write speeds.
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How bad is it? AnandTech found a 62.9 percent drop in random read performance, a 50.5 percent drop in random write performance, and a staggering 80.7 percent drop in sequential read performance. Encryption doesnt directly affect the speed of the very capableSnapdragon 805 CPU inside the Nexus 6, but it does mean that the CPU might be idly kicking its heels while it waits for data to be transferred to and from the rest of the system.
None of this is particularly surprising the extra processing required to encrypt and decrypt data as its written is always going to lead to a performance hit but now we have some real-world figures thatshowjust how much the speed of the Nexus 6 is affected by Lollipops newest layer of security. If your brand new Lollipop phone or tablet feels a little sluggish, now you know why. Older devices getting Lollipop via an OTA update, like the Nexus 5, will not have encryption enabled by default.
Whats more, the extra security feature doesnt have much benefit unless you lock your device with a passcode, something that many users fail to do. The move to enable [full disk encryption] by default in Lollipop seems like a reactionary move to combat the perception that Android is insecure or more prone to attack than iOS, even if that perception may not actually be accurate, write Brandon Chester and Joshua Ho in the AnandTech report. While its always good to improve the security of your platform, the current solution results in an unacceptable hit to performance. [We] hope Google will either reconsider their decision to enable FDE by default, or implement it in a way that doesnt have as significant of an impact on performance.
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(CNN) -- A Swedish appeals court on Thursday denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's latest request to dismiss an arrest warrant for alleged rape and molestation -- cases that he says are false and politically motivated.
Assange, 43, has been living in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for more than two years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where prosecutors want to question him about 2010 allegations that he raped one woman and sexually molested another.
Assange, who has not been charged, denies the allegations and says he fears Sweden would extradite him to the United States, where he could face the death penalty if he is charged and convicted of publishing government secrets through WikiLeaks.
The Australia native has argued the warrant should be dismissed because, in part, Swedish authorities refuse to interview him at the Ecuadorian Embassy, thereby prolonging a preliminary investigation that he says should have concluded long ago.
The appellate court nodded to this argument, agreeing that "the failure of the prosecutors to examine alternative avenues is not in line with their obligation ... to move the preliminary investigation forward."
But it concluded that, in balance, the arrest warrant must remain in effect because the crimes alleged are serious and because "there is a great risk that he will flee and thereby evade legal proceedings if the detention order is set aside."
"In the view of the court of appeal, these circumstances mean that the reasons for detention still outweigh the intrusion or other detriment entailed by the detention order," appellate judges wrote in Thursday's ruling.
Another appeal expected
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