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How hard is it to get a cell phone with tethering? C'mon, this can't really be a big deal.

• raverbashing 10y ago
  No difficulty whatsoever
  • astrodust 10y ago
    When you're stuck in an embassy and surrounded by people you can't trust, and you're a de-facto enemy of the state? I'm sure a lot harder than you think.
    • raverbashing 10y ago
      No 'intrinsic' difficulty, that's an extrinsic difficulty.
• coleca 10y ago
  I'm sure the US Govt would love to give him a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to use. But seriously, if you were him, how confident would you be that the phone wasn't tampered with, no matter who you received it from? How could Assange trust anyone at this point? I'd imagine he would be quite paranoid given what he deals with and probably more so from the period of confinement.
• mikeash 10y ago
  During the initial discussion yesterday, when it was just a vague "state party" to blame that everyone assumed meant the US and UK were isolating the embassy, a lot of people were talking about jamming cell signals. There was supposedly even an account from someone who visited the embassy and immediately lost all connectivity when they went inside. It's kind of amazing to see what people come up with in the absence of information.