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Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by Pinckney »

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...

Alternatively, it is a bomb, and one cleverly prepared to maximize the likelihood that it is opened by its intended target. (Somehow I imagine Mr Assange is careful about opening unsolicited packages these days -- but if he becomes aware of this one, he might relax that standard).

Perhaps my tinfoil hat needs adjusting.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by marshray »

eriksank wrote: post #57
nikcub wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In all practical terms, the Ecuadorian authorities expect their embassy to be inviolable. It is this expectation and their insistence on this expectation that complicates this matter to no end. It is simply not in British interests to be seen dismissing this expectation as unimportant. My personal view is that a deal should be possible that is acceptable to both Assange and Ecuador, to end this stalemate. Her Majesty…

> It is simply not in British interests to be seen dismissing this expectation as unimportant.

Maybe that's understating it a bit.

The United Kingdom itself has embassies all over the world, filled with important British people and often in places where they might not be uniformly liked. The British have far more to lose by a breakdown of diplomatic protections than the Ecuadorians do.

http://www.google.com/search?q=british+embassy+attack

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by damian2000 »

australis wrote: post #24

Can be followed on twitter as well https://twitter.com/bitnk/ also, e-mail sent to Assange informing him of the parcel: http://pastebin.com/44m5UViP

I didn't get this part ...

> There are over 9000 identical parcels! So, if the first parcel fails to reach you, we will undertake a second and third attempt.

Surely they haven't made 9000 camera parcels?

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by eurleif »

damian2000 wrote: post #64
australis wrote: post #24

Can be followed on twitter as well https://twitter.com/bitnk/ also, e-mail sent to Assange informing him of the parcel: http://pastebin.com/44m5UViP

I didn't get this part ... > There are over 9000 identical parcels! So, if the first parcel fails to reach you, we will undertake a second and third attempt. Surely they haven't made 9000 camera parcels?

"Over 9000" is a meme, so don't take it literally.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by marshray »

sturmeh wrote: post #60
cbr wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who pronounce "URL" as "earl" say "an URL". (One of my coworkers does this, Australian if it helps.)

Although it's not correctly pronounced as earl. (You sound each letter separately.) So using "an" would be yet another mistake.

Lol.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by [deleted] »

damian2000 wrote: post #64
australis wrote: post #24

Can be followed on twitter as well https://twitter.com/bitnk/ also, e-mail sent to Assange informing him of the parcel: http://pastebin.com/44m5UViP

I didn't get this part ... > There are over 9000 identical parcels! So, if the first parcel fails to reach you, we will undertake a second and third attempt. Surely they haven't made 9000 camera parcels?

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Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by damian2000 »

eurleif wrote: post #65
damian2000 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't get this part ... > There are over 9000 identical parcels! So, if the first parcel fails to reach you, we will undertake a second and third attempt. Surely they haven't made 9000 camera parcels?

"Over 9000" is a meme, so don't take it literally.

Ok thanks!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-over-9000

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by benevolinux »

JosephRedfern wrote: post #33
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.

"knock up a script that would download them all"

That doesn't seem to end well for people lately.

Re: Delivery for Mr. Assange

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Post by damian2000 »

cyanbane wrote: post #29
kilroy123 wrote: post #21

Hmm... sending a device into an embassy, that is recording data (video), possibly sound, and transmitting it. Isn't this an act of espionage? While cool, this seems like a bad idea to me.

I agree, very ballsy art. I don't believe I have ever explicitly seen a law here in the US (I know this is UK, just comparing) forbidding cameras within a package, but I would think there would be some law on the books somewhere they could apply (not saying that is a good thing, esp in light of recent events).

A reason it might not be allowed is due to fire risk - anything operated from batteries is supposed to be turned off, and with the battery terminals isolated ... these are guidelines from the postal services ...

http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/ship/packaging/gu...

http://www.royalmail.com/despatch-inward-mail-services/hints...

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