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Even if the embassy was shut down surely just a cheap smart phone would rectify the situation and get him back online. Are they somehow blocking mobile signals
by weavie 10y ago
Even if the embassy was shut down surely just a cheap smart phone would rectify the situation and get him back online. Are they somehow blocking mobile signals as well?
- VMG 10y agoState actors can jam the spectrum and make wireless communication impossible.
- DigitalJack 10y agoDon't Hamm operators have a low speed data protocol? Also, I bet some industrious hackers could hack together a microcontroller, photodiodes, and cheap lasers for a line of sight connection as a bridge.
- jacquesm 10y agoAX.25
- mountaineer22 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-space_optical_communicati...
- Kadin 10y agoIt would be a fun hackathon project to build such a thing out of the components you could find in typical office equipment, and I wouldn't expect it to take a competent EE more than a few hours (if you'll allow continuous wave Morse code as a transport layer). But based on where the embassy is, it's probably easier to stand near a window and get on the WiFi from Pret a Manger next door.
- PJDK 10y agoYeah, but not secretly while in the middle of central london
- VMG 10y agoMaybe not, but I haven't seen confirmations one way or another. I don't know about wireless standards to say whether or not it's possible to selectively disable regions or devices.
- a3n 10y agoFor the phone, the Gov would just have to tell the carrier to turn off the acount.
- PJDK 10y agoYou can literally buy phones from vending machines in the UK.
- JohnStrange 10y agoYes, but Assange cannot step out of the embassy to buy one himself, and he's fairly paranoid. There are probably only very few people in the world from whom he would accept a phone to enter all of his precious passwords, if he is willing to use a phone for that at all.
- xorcist 10y agoIt's probably all the same to him. Assange is likely clever enough to assume all his traffic is combed through by smart people, no matter which data transport he uses.
- samstave 10y agoSo wouldn't many other people be able to confirm this? How many other people visit or work in said embassy, and how many officially assigned to the embassy work there??
- AndyNemmity 10y agoA perisope user went into the embassy and said their mobile stopped working while inside. Random, unverified claim, but all we have.
- jules 10y agoMaybe he has been arrested, but all wikileaks know is that he has stopped sending a periodic signal that he is fine.
- pera 10y agoI don't see any comments on their Twitter account, and their are active (there is a retweet 55m ago): https://twitter.com/EmbajadaEcuUK https://twitter.com/EmbajadaEcuUK