Category Archives: Torrents

Edward Snowden(Operation Snowbird?), Julian Assange, NSA, Torrents

Mysterious Tweet Sparks Fears Edward Snowden Is Missing Or Dead | Your News Wire

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Posted on August 6, 2016 by Baxter Dmitry

Edward Snowden tweeted a cryptic 156 character code on Friday evening that was deleted minutes later, sparking fears the message was a ‘dead man’s switch’ meaning Snowden is either dead or missing.

A dead man’s switch is a message set up to be automatically sent if the holder of the account does not perform a regular check-in. In Snowden’s case, his dead man’s switch would be the key to the encrypted files he distributed among journalists and associates.

Edward Snowden tweet

Snowden’s first release in 2013 sent shockwaves through the intelligence community and confirmed suspicions that many people had held about the NSA for years. However the information he released was a mere fraction of the data he held when he left the United States.

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DHS(French Owned Corporation), Torrents

Kickass Torrents: How did the US Government bring down the file-sharing site? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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By Will Ockenden Updated yesterday at 5:40pm

Until today, Kickass Torrents (KAT) was one of the most visited websites on the internet and brought in tens of millions of dollars a year in advertising.

Now, the website is no more.

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