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Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by JosephRedfern »

gesman wrote: post #7

Also audio feed would be interesting as well. Is there somewhere array of saved images kept?

Example URL: http://54.243.29.30/public/ASSANGE/2013/01/16/20130116204737...

The filename s in the form YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.jpg - you could probably guess the path to past images if you wanted to, or even knock up a script that would download them all.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by Sidnicious »

MrJagil wrote: post #28

Can anyone explain the URL to me?

It's a normal URL, but with an IP address in the domain part.

Your browser normally uses a DNS server to resolve the domain name portion of a URL to the hosting server's IP address — news.ycombinator.com resolves to 174.132.225.106, for example — but it skips that step if it sees something that looks like an IP address itself.

(In either case, it tells the server what the original hostname was, so that it's possible to host more than one website at a single IP address.)

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by clauretano »

dmix wrote: post #4
gesman wrote: post #3

How does it holds internet connection? Police will definitely notice it for Julian - and will x-ray it. Then they'll see wires and circuitry inside. Bomb? Would be interesting to see progress...

It's possible it won't be detected. Parcels sent locally don't go through nearly the level of security as customs puts foreign packages through.

It'd be surprising if a high profile place such as an embassy didn't have its own off-site mail sorting facility. Many high profile non-government places already do this. It's fairly easy to evacuate a mail facility full of contractors (from Pitney-Bowes or other) every time you receive a suspicious package or your systems detect harmful chemicals; to do the same with your corporate HQ would be far more disruptive.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by rapind »

You may want to follow this on twitter instead of using the IP Address given in the link.

I only say this in case it's just one server behind this IP address, and the camera / phone is posting it's images to it as well. Viral traffic could potentially ruin the entire experiment.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by nikcub »

w1ntermute wrote: post #22
tptacek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contrary to popular belief, embassies are not in fact foreign soil.

Yeah, I'm pretty surprised that Her Majesty's government hasn't already raided the Ecuadorian embassy, taken Assange into custody, and handed him over to the Swedes. Ecuador is a pretty insignificant country, and it's not like they'd catch any flak from the American government for such a move.

There is precedent:

"Thatcher—who was kept apprised of the situation by Whitelaw—determined that British law would be applied to the embassy, despite the Vienna Convention, under which the embassy is considered Iranian soil."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by w1ntermute »

derrida wrote: post #26
w1ntermute wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I'm pretty surprised that Her Majesty's government hasn't already raided the Ecuadorian embassy, taken Assange into custody, and handed him over to the Swedes. Ecuador is a pretty insignificant country, and it's not like they'd catch any flak from the American government for such a move.

The diplomatic fallout in the event of a raid would be huge. There was a meeting of all foreign ministers of South America who issued a joint statement to condemn the UK for threatening to raid the embassy.

Would it be that big of a deal? South America (with the possible exception of Brazil) isn't exactly that economically or politically influential.
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