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> "State actor" can only really mean UK or Ecuadorian government - or at the very least one of those two must be pulling the trigger. Not necessarily. Russia c
by nateberkopec 10y ago
> "State actor" can only really mean UK or Ecuadorian government - or at the very least one of those two must be pulling the trigger.
Not necessarily. Russia could think that it's best interest is that Wikileaks' dead man switch goes off. They could be pressuring Ecuador or actually have cut the connection themselves.
> Also, this is central London - the internet floats freely through the air. Contingency measure is tethering?
Cellphone signals can be easily jammed, as shown at DEFCON and other events. No one has reported on whether or not they can get signal at the Ecuadorian embassy AFAIK.
EDIT: Some people streamed Periscope from the embassy, so no cellphone jamming. If Ecuador is involved, of course, they could just take away all of Assange's devices.
- PJDK 10y agoRight, but if Russia is cutting it off that will be a snip the cable type job, killing internet for the whole embassy (or even building). Something you'd expect to be noticed pretty widely. And it would be fixable by phoning BT. As for signal jamming. Not an area I know a lot about, but I assume it is achieved by flooding an area with noise. Pretty detectable is what I'm saying - anyone nipped down to see if that's actually happening? Would be quite a scoop.
- rurban 10y agoThe periscopers who did stream from the embassy today did report jamming very close to the embassy. And were not let through to Julian.