Wikileaks tweeted that its co-founder, Julian Assange, had his internet connection intentionally cut by an unidentified “.” The tweet came after Wikileaks posted a series of cryptic tweets, each containing a 64-character code. The tweets referenced Ecuador, Secretary of State John Kerry and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth Office. Some users on Twitter, Reddit, and various discussion forums speculated that the tweets in question were the result of a ‘dead man’s switch’ that has been triggered in the event of Assange’s untimely death.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/10/wikileaks-julian-assange-dead.html